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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. Why does the young wife think the husband has left her for a mistress?
(a) She knows how to please him
(b) She is boring
(c) She didn't compliment his beard
(d) She is ugly

2. What do they say doomed the Romanian wife?
(a) Heroin
(b) Marriage
(c) Love
(d) Absinthe

3. What color hair does the young wife have?
(a) Blonde
(b) Black
(c) Dark brown
(d) Mouse colored

4. What does the young wife blame for the piano being out of tune?
(a) Careless fingers
(b) People stamping their feet
(c) The house keeper
(d) The sea breeze

5. How does the young wife say the crowd in the foyer parted?
(a) With love and respect
(b) Like wooden huge creaking church doors
(c) Like heaven's gates
(d) Like the red sea

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the young wife compare the box her wedding dress came to?

2. What does the husband call his wife when he sees her looking at his books?

3. What does the young wife say the castle looks like when she switches on all the lights?

4. Why does the husband like his wife in her white muslin?

5. Who does the young wife see galloping towards the castle?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do you think the young wife does not tell anyone what happened, but instead accepts the gossip?

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

3. Why do you think the young wife is so quick to call the piano tuner her young lover?

4. Describe the piano tuners background.

5. How important is the piano tuner to the story?

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

7. How does Carter use color in the novella?

8. In what ways has the young wife grown up in a short space of time?

9. Does Carter subvert the conventions of a fairy tale?

10. What is the girl's reaction to seeing her husband's pornography?

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