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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 her husband presses her to?

2. What is the only thing the young wife says she can manage on the piano?

3. Where does the husband keep his jewels?

4. What companion does the young wife say she sleeps with?

5. Where is the room the husband does not want his wife to go?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do you think the differences are between a novella and a novel?

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

3. In what ways is the young woman naive?

4. Why do you think the Marquis stops what he is doing when the door is locked?

5. Why do you think the young wife would want to marry the Marquis if she does not love him?

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

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

8. Do you think the Marquis is a conventional murderer in term of literature?

9. In what way does the Marquis show shame at what he has done?

10. What is a libertine?

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

Carter often alludes to famous cautionary tales and weaves them into the narrative of the book. What cautionary tales does Carter allude to? What do the inclusion of these tales say about the books narrator?

Essay Topic 3

The book is called the Bloody Chamber, a title that speaks for it self. Why do you think Carter has chosen such a straightforward title? What kind of expectations does it give the reader? How important do you think titles are?

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