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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. During which month does the narrator visit the two colleges?
2. What female poet does the narrator recite to herself when leaving the luncheon, thinking that women must have hummed at parties before the war?
3. What does a woman need in order to write fiction, according to Woolf?
4. While reading the newspaper, what is the narrator reminded of?
5. In the fictional tale of Shakespeare's sister, how old is she when she leaves home?
Short Essay Questions
1. What comparison does the narrator make regarding the city she visits the museum in?
2. Where, according to the narrator, did Jane Austen write?
3. What does the narrator find remarkable about all the books written about women?
4. What is interesting about the way the narrator says that she addresses Mary Carmichael?
5. Explain the comparison between women and mirrors presented by the narrator.
6. What are the two criticisms that Woolf addresses in Chapter 6?
7. What does the narrator attribute to the insanity of a woman like Judith?
8. What does the narrator say about measuring a woman's accomplishments?
9. Where, according to the narrator, does genius like that of Shakespeare's come from?
10. Even though they originally were drawn to poetry, why does the narrator say women wrote novels?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Is A Room of One's Own a work of fiction, or merely an essay? Discuss the structure of the story and the elements of fiction within it.
Essay Topic 2
Explain the theme of emotion vs. reason that is presented in the novel. What does the narrator make of the "facts" presented about women, and are they facts at all? How does the narrator conclude that anger fuels some writing about the relations between the sexes? What other applications does the theme have to gender relations?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the reasons why women were more successful, initially, in writing novels than in writing poetry.
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