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This test consists of 5 short answer questions and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does the narrator say is natural for the sexes to do?
2. What does the narrator use as a less offensive word for "vanities?"
3. What, according to the narrator, has given women wider range in fiction?
4. What is the date at the beginning of Chapter 6?
5. What is Carmichael's novel called?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the tone of A Room of One's Own. Compare it to other feminist works. Discuss the use of humor/sarcasm for levity. How is the tone dream-like in some places?
Essay Topic 2
Explain the theme of emotion vs. reason that is presented in the novel. What does the narrator make of the "facts" presented about women, and are they facts at all? How does the narrator conclude that anger fuels some writing about the relations between the sexes? What other applications does the theme have to gender relations?
Essay Topic 3
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?
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