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A Room of One's Own | Quiz

Virginia Woolf
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A Room of One's Own | Quiz

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1)

What fictional character does the narrator refer to as examples of women in fiction? (from Chapter 3)

Antigone.
Lady MacBeth.
Cleopatra.
All of the above.
2)

To what does Woolf compare Fascist poetry? (from Chapter 6)

A storm.
An abortion.
A disease.
A sewer.
3)

To the narrator, excluding women from history makes it seem "unreal" and "________." (from Chapter 3)

Lop-sided.
Inventive.
Happy.
Chauvinistic.
4)

What class of women in particular does the narrator claim is absent from history? (from Chapter 3)

Working-class.
Royalty.
Educated.
Middle-class.
5)

How does Shakespeare's fictional sister die? (from Chapter 3)

She falls of a horse.
She dies in childbirth.
She kills herself.
She is murdered.
6)

What was the "genre" of Dorothy Osborne's writing? (from Chapter 4)

Poetry.
Letters.
Novels.
Essays.
7)

As a metaphor for androgyny in writing, what does the narrator say poetry needs? (from Chapter 6)

A sister.
A makeover.
A sex change.
A father and a mother.
8)

Woolf claims that talent cannot be weighed like _________. (from Chapter 6)

Lead.
Cargo.
Sugar and butter.
Curds and whey.
9)

Male writers often referred to women who wrote as "_________ with an itch for scribbling." (from Chapter 4)

Employees.
Harpies.
Kids.
Blue-stockings.
10)

What could happen to a woman who refused to marry the man her parents chose for her prior to the 19th century? (from Chapter 3)

She could be elected governor.
She could be kicked out of her house.
She could be beaten and locked up.
She could be executed.
11)

What does the narrator say the sight of a woman "creating in a different medium than his own" does to a man? (from Chapter 5)

Makes him angry.
Pushes him away.
Turns him on.
Invigorates him.
12)

What was Behn's first name? (from Chapter 4)

Aphra.
Margaret.
Jenny.
Judith.
13)

What occupation does Shakespeare's fictional sister set out to do? (from Chapter 3)

Waitress.
Actress.
Seamstress.
Writer.
14)

To what author does the narrator attribute the idea that a great mind is androgynous? (from Chapter 6)

Coleridge.
Shakespeare.
Austen.
Bronte.
15)

To what does the narrator compare compiling information about the day-to-day life of a woman? (from Chapter 3)

Challenging authority.
Pulling teeth.
Crying wolf.
Rewriting history.
16)

In what century does the narrator believe women finally became complex characters in fiction? (from Chapter 5)

19th.
18th.
16th.
20th.
17)

What does the narrator say is natural for the sexes to do? (from Chapter 6)

Co-operate.
Read.
Fight.
Love.
18)

In what genre were women denied the most expression? (from Chapter 4)

Music.
Novels.
Poetry.
Essays.
19)

What kind of writer is Mr. B? (from Chapter 6)

A historian.
A critic.
A novelist.
A theologian.
20)

Whose point of view takes over for the narrator at the end of Chapter 6? (from Chapter 6)

Professor X.
Woolf herself.
Jane Austen.
An Oxbridge student.
21)

What do Lady Winchilsea and Margaret of Newcastle have in common? (from Chapter 4)

They are both happy.
They are married to the same man.
They work at the same seamstress shop.
They have no children.
22)

What does the narrator find awkward about Carmichael's writing? (from Chapter 5)

Her style.
Her story.
Her vocabulary.
Her tone.
23)

What virtues did Behn posses, according to the narrator? (from Chapter 4)

Vitality.
Courage.
All of the above.
Humor.
24)

In Carmichael's novel, what do Chloe and Olivia share? (from Chapter 5)

An office.
An apartment.
A laboratory.
A lover.
25)

According to the narrator, in relation to her husband, what was a woman prior to the women's movement? (from Chapter 3)

Property.
An equal.
A queen.
An employee.
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