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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 writer does the narrator list as one whose self-consciousness the reader is aware of?
2. According to the narrator, how do we achieve self-confidence?
3. What female poet does the narrator recite to herself when leaving the luncheon, thinking that women must have hummed at parties before the war?
4. What does the narrator see that makes her laugh when looking out the window at the Oxbridge luncheon?
5. What is one thing the narrator compares the big city she is visiting to?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does the narrator ultimately decide to lecture about instead of "women and fiction?"
2. Where, according to the narrator, did Jane Austen write?
3. Disappointed with what she has researched so far about women and fiction, what/who does the narrator decide might provide some answers for her upon returning to the British Museum?
4. When Mary comes upon the chapel at Oxbridge, what do her thoughts instantly go to?
5. What does the narrator think that Coleridge meant by a mind that is androgynous?
6. What does the narrator consider as something that men seek in relationships with women?
7. What does Mary wonder about the conversation at the Oxbridge luncheon?
8. What does the narrator find that she feels when reading Professor von X's work about women?
9. What evidence does the narrator point to that women were not in an unimpeded, incandescent state of mind conducive to writing poetry in the Elizabethan era?
10. What does the narrator find remarkable about all the books written about women?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What is the purpose or main thesis of A Room of One's Own? What evidence does Woolf provide to support her thesis?
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 characterization of Judith. How is she different from her brother? How are they similar? What does she represent to the narrator?
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