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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 is the name of the friend who the narrator visits with after dinner at Fernham?
2. Whose influence is all over the paper, and is "the power and the money and the influence," metaphorically?
3. What could happen to a woman who refused to marry the man her parents chose for her prior to the 19th century?
4. What does the narrator compare to the pile of books she gathers to study about women in the museum's library when it is placed on her desk?
5. What building is the narrator not allowed into at the men's college?
Short Essay Questions
1. According to the narrator, what challenges will Mary Carmichael face as a writer?
2. What does the narrator ultimately decide to lecture about instead of "women and fiction?"
3. Explain the comparison between women and mirrors presented by the narrator.
4. Where does the narrator go to continue her research on women and fiction after visiting the two colleges?
5. What does the narrator consider as something that men seek in relationships with women?
6. What does the narrator find awkward about Mary Carmichael's novel?
7. What is the narrator surprised to find about the amount of history written that involves women?
8. What, according to the narrator as she reflects on her financial situation, will eat away at the spirit over time?
9. Why is the beadle upset that Mary is walking on the grass of the men's college?
10. What does Mary wonder about the conversation at the Oxbridge luncheon?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Why is androgyny important in fiction, according to the narrator/Woolf? How does not being sex-conscious enhance fiction? What examples does Woolf provide of writers who wrote from both sides of the brain?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the characterization of Judith. How is she different from her brother? How are they similar? What does she represent to the narrator?
Essay Topic 3
Explain the use of literary allusions in A Room of One's Own. Who/what is mentioned? How do these people and works relate to the story? What does the prevalence of allusions indirectly say about the author's own intelligence?
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