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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 maid squeeze the orange juice into?

2. What does the young wife think her husband has left her for?

3. What does the young wife say flashes in the light?

4. What does the young wife think her principle function as a chatelaine is?

5. What does the maid ask the young wife in the study?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What do you know about Marquis's from other popular fiction?

3. How does the Marquis seduce the young wife?

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

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

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

7. Why do you think Carter does not use names for the main characters?

8. Why do you think Carter uses a castle as her main setting?

9. How do you think Brittany is different to the young wife's life in Paris?

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

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

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.

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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