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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What opera does the husband take the young wife to see?
(a) The Magic Flute
(b) Faust
(c) Cats
(d) Tristan

2. What does the husband say the English call his private room?
(a) A public house
(b) A den
(c) An inn
(d) A castle

3. what does the young woman want to eat?
(a) Coal, chalk or tainted food
(b) Strawberry cake
(c) Baked beans and sausages
(d) Chocolate buttons

4. What does the young wife say when the mother ask if she is sure she loves him?
(a) Love is for idiots
(b) As much as the next man and the ones before
(c) I don't know
(d) I'm sure I want to marry him.

5. What word does the young wife use to describe her bedroom?
(a) Narrow
(b) Quaint
(c) Huge
(d) Spacious

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is on the telephone?

2. What is the name of the suite the young wife is given?

3. What does the young girl imagine the castle walls are made from?

4. What does the young wife say drove her on?

5. What does the young wife call the piano tuner?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the mother's role in the story?

2. What do you think is the chronological setting of the novel?

3. What reason do you think the young wife cries to her mother?

4. How do you think the Marquis has gotten away for so long with the murders?

5. Why do you think the young wife would want to marry the Marquis if she does not love him?

6. Why do you think Carter is so descriptive about the dead bodies?

7. In what way is Bloody Chamber a feminist story?

8. In what ways does the young wife romanticize her marriage to the Marquis?

9. Why do you think the story constantly harks back to past times?

10. Describe what an iron maiden is.

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