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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. Whose influence is all over the paper, and is "the power and the money and the influence," metaphorically?
2. According to the narrator, what does a woman with creative talent inevitably lose?
3. What was the cost of founding the women's college?
4. What object does the narrator think best exemplifies a woman's purpose for a man?
5. What does the narrator say that the women before her were doing instead of earning money?
Short Essay Questions
1. What, according to the narrator as she reflects on her financial situation, will eat away at the spirit over time?
2. What does the narrator ask the reader to call her?
3. 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?
4. What does the narrator find awkward about Mary Carmichael's novel?
5. Where does the narrator go to continue her research on women and fiction after visiting the two colleges?
6. What does the narrator think that Coleridge meant by a mind that is androgynous?
7. What does the narrator attribute to the insanity of a woman like Judith?
8. What does the narrator find that she feels when reading Professor von X's work about women?
9. Where, according to the narrator, does genius like that of Shakespeare's come from?
10. What are some arguments Woolf gives against the criticisms of her narrative?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Why is androgyny important in fiction, according to the narrator/Woolf? How does not being sex-conscious enhance fiction? What examples does Woolf provide of writers who wrote from both sides of the brain?
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
Describe the different ways that the narrator reveals women are objectified. For example, how are they simply mirrors for men? In what other ways are women presented as inactive objects?
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