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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 Orlando realize the great poets she meets through Mr. Pope are despite their talent?

2. What does Orlando feel she may no longer need to do now that she is married?

3. What does Nick Greene promise to Orlando that he will use his good reputation to get for her poem?

4. What does Orlando believe will be impossible if she doesn't get married?

5. What is Shelmerdine on when Orlando first meets him?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Orlando react after thinking about all her past lives at the end of the book?

2. Why can't Orlando rejoin high society after gaining her possessions back as a woman?

3. What happens when Orlando accidentally shows a bit of ankle on deck of the merchant ship to England?

4. What is the nature of Orlando's conversation with the archduchess when Orlando invites her inside in Chapter 4?

5. How do Orlando's servants at her country estate treat her when she arrives there for the first time as a woman?

6. What good news does Orlando receive near the end of Chapter 5?

7. How does the archduke save Orlando from a crowd of commoners who remember her as a man?

8. What do Orlando and Shelmerdine reveal to one another when they each suggest there is something different about the other after they begin courting?

9. What is the nature of the note Orlando finds at Blackfriars when she first returns there as a woman?

10. How does Orlando's writing change after she realizes that being married has helped her writing become freer?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Social status is something that is both important and essential to Orlando and the defining of his/her nature.

Part 1.) What does social status appear to mean for men in the royal court, and how does Orlando react to these demands?

Part 2.) How does Orlando's view of social status change once she becomes a woman?

Part 3.) What might the author wish for the reader to learn about social status and its presence in England based on its portrayal in the book?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the concept of marriage presented in the book. How does the author appear to feel toward marriage based on her portrayal of the act in the book?

Essay Topic 3

Examine the concept of satire presented in the book. What appears to be the author's feelings toward satirical writing based on her portrayal of satire in the book?

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