A Room of One's Own | Short Question Answer Key

Short Answer Key

Chapter 1

1. What topic has the narrator asked to lecture about?

Women and fiction.

2. What meanings does the narrator present as possibilities for discussing the lecture topic?

All of the above.

3. What does a woman need in order to write fiction, according to Woolf?

Some money and a room of her own.

4. What is the name of the men's college visited by the narrator?

Oxbridge.

5. What is the name of the women's college visited by the narrator?

Fernham.

6. What first name does the narrator give herself, even though she says it is unimportant?

Mary.

7. During which month does the narrator visit the two colleges?

October.

8. What does the narrator compare to a fish as she sits thinking by the river bank?

A thought.

9. Who is upset that the narrator is walking on the grass at Oxbridge?

The beadle.

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