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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 does the young wife decide the house needs?

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

3. Who asks the young wife if she loves her husband?

4. What is the only thing the young wife says she can hear?

5. What color hair does the young wife have?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is a libertine?

2. What do you think is the significance of the opal?

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

4. Why do you think music is so important to the young wife?

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

6. What is a Marquis?

7. Why does the young wife show little surprise that her mother is riding across the beach to save her?

8. Why is it significant that the Marquis smells of Russian leather?

9. Why do you think the piano is the only character Carter gives a name to?

10. What do you think is the significance of the sea?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Angela Carter is famous for writing in a magic realist style.

1) What is magic realism?

2) How does Carter use magic realism in the Bloody Chamber?

3) Take an example of magic realism from the book and discuss how it contributes to the story's meaning.

Essay Topic 2

Using two examples from the book discuss the following statement. The story plays on the reader's expectations and changes them to mold a different meaning.

Essay Topic 3

Carter seems to give everything in the book color. What colors does she use? What tone does this give the novella? Choose two examples of Carter's use of color and discuss what meaning that color gives both the object and the story.

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