A Room of One's Own Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

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A Room of One's Own Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 102 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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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 women's college visited by the narrator?

2. What subject does the narrator's friend teach at the women's college?

3. What are the beadles doing as the narrator leaves the men's college?

4. What class of women in particular does the narrator claim is absent from history?

5. According to the narrator, how do we achieve self-confidence?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the narrator think that Coleridge meant by a mind that is androgynous?

2. According to the books the narrator finds about the position of women in history, what treatment of women was typical in England's history?

3. What are some arguments Woolf gives against the criticisms of her narrative?

4. In conversing with a friend who works at the women's college, what does the narrator discover about the financial difference between women and men?

5. What options does the narrator give as meanings for the term "women and fiction?"

6. What does Mary wonder about the conversation at the Oxbridge luncheon?

7. What does the narrator attribute to the insanity of a woman like Judith?

8. What tone is pervasive throughout the poem by Lady Winchilsea that the narrator recites?

9. Explain the comparison between women and mirrors presented by the narrator.

10. What change in the nineteenth century legitimized women's writing?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast Charlotte Bronte and Jane Austen. Given what the narrator reveals about each women, how are they similar in both their approach to writing and their experience of it? How is this evidenced in their works?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the consistent references to rhythm and flow throughout the text. What imagery evokes a rhythmic flow in the narrator's story? What does Woolf explicitly say about rhythm and unity?

Essay Topic 3

What does the narrator seem to say about relationships, both between characters and real people? What do we seek in relationships, according to the narrator?

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