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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 call the piano tuner?

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

3. How did her husband's last wife die?

4. What does the young wife say when the mother ask if she is sure she loves him?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does the Marquis seduce the young wife?

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

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

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

6. Describe the castle setting.

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

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

9. How does the young girl's father cast a shadow across the whole story?

10. How does Carter use color in the novella?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What do you think the castle setting brings to the story? Take another setting and discuss what difference it would bring to the same story?

Essay Topic 2

The Bloody Chamber is based on a fairy tale called Blue Beard. What are the mechanics of a fairy tale in terms of:

1) Language

2) Character

3) Structure

Essay Topic 3

Angela Carter is known as a feminist writer. Do you think the Bloody Chamber is an example of feminist literature? Give two examples from the story to support your argument.

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