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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 to have for lunch?

2. What does the postcard say it is a typical scene of?

3. Who does the young see in the iron maiden?

4. What key does the husband ask his wife not to use?

5. Who is on the telephone?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does the girl decide to enter the private room?

2. What is a libertine?

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

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

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

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

7. Do you think Carter represents the Marquis as unstable and crazy or just plain evil?

8. Do you think the Marquis's servant play a role in the Marquis' crimes?

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

10. Why do you think Carter focuses so much on the young girl's body?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The young wife discovers her husband's pornography in his library. What do you think are the negatives and positives of pornography in today's society? What do you think is Carter's view of pornography?

Essay Topic 2

The Bloody Chamber is a novella. What do you think are the differences between a novella and a novel in terms of:

1) Language

2) Character

3) Structure

Essay Topic 3

Look back at the period the book is written in. What were the concerns of this period? Does Carter reflect these concerns in the Bloody Chamber?

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