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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What colors are the young wife's furs?

2. Why does the young wife think the husband has left her for a mistress?

3. What does the young wife think she has lost in marrying?

4. In what country does the story take place?

5. How does the young wife say the key fits into the lock?

Short Essay Questions

1. What Fairy Tale conventions does Carter use?

2. In what way is Bloody Chamber a feminist story?

3. Describe the young girl.

4. What do you think is the significance of the red ribbon?

5. Carter references a lot of artists and books in the novella. What meaning do they bring to the story?

6. Is it significant that the young girl compares her mother to Medusa?

7. In what ways does the young wife romanticize her marriage to the Marquis?

8. Do you think the Marquis's servant play a role in the Marquis' crimes?

9. In what ways is the young woman naive?

10. What do you know about Marquis's from other popular fiction?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The young wife often claims she is falling in love with the Marquis. Do you think people can fall in love that easily? What do you think is the meaning of true love? Why do you think the young wife is so prepared to fall in love?

Essay Topic 2

Carter seems to give everything in the book color. What colors does she use? What tone does this give the novella? Choose two examples of Carter's use of color and discuss what meaning that color gives both the object and the story.

Essay Topic 3

What do you think the castle setting brings to the story? Take another setting and discuss what difference it would bring to the same story?

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