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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 say is bad about the passage?

2. What does the young wife say the phone is as dead as?

3. What does the young wife say her husband's chuckle sounds like?

4. What does the husband say the young wife must not play with?

5. What does the young wife remember as she lies in her new bedroom?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe the young girl.

3. What is a libertine?

4. What do you think the girl means to the Marquis?

5. Is it significant that the young girl compares her mother to Medusa?

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

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

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

9. What is a Marquis?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Carter uses many conventions from folk and fairy tales. What conventions do you recognize from the book? Take two examples and discuss how Carter uses them. Does she give them new meaning.

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

The book is set in Brittany in France. Why do you think Carter sets her story here? What meaning does it add? What difference do you think there would be in the story if it was set in another country or region?

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