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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 narrator wonder about Shakespeare as she looks for answers in his tragedies?

2. The narrator claims that "it is in our idleness, in our ______, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top."

3. Even up to the beginning of the nineteenth century, according to the narrator, what was "out of the question" for a woman?

4. How much income does the narrator receive per year?

5. According to the narrator, which animal lives the longest of all animals?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are some arguments Woolf gives against the criticisms of her narrative?

2. What does the narrator find when she returns to reading fiction by a man?

3. What are the two criticisms that Woolf addresses in Chapter 6?

4. What does the phrase "Chloe liked Olivia" set the narrator on a discussion about?

5. According to the books the narrator finds about the position of women in history, what treatment of women was typical in England's history?

6. What comical comparison does the narrator cite as one that men often use for the idea of women writing?

7. What does the narrator say about measuring a woman's accomplishments?

8. What does the narrator ultimately decide to lecture about instead of "women and fiction?"

9. In conversing with a friend who works at the women's college, what does the narrator discover about the financial difference between women and men?

10. What does the narrator find awkward about Mary Carmichael's novel?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the tone of A Room of One's Own. Compare it to other feminist works. Discuss the use of humor/sarcasm for levity. How is the tone dream-like in some places?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the characterization of Judith. How is she different from her brother? How are they similar? What does she represent to the narrator?

Essay Topic 3

Describe the difference between women in history and women in fiction that the narrator discovers. Why does such a difference exist? What reasons does the narrator provide or hint at?

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