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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 female poet does the narrator recite to herself when leaving the luncheon, thinking that women must have hummed at parties before the war?
2. While reading the newspaper, what is the narrator reminded of?
3. What does a woman need in order to write fiction, according to Woolf?
4. The narrator says that prunes are not _________.
5. In Chapter 2, what bill does the narrator give the waiter to pay for her meal?
Short Essay Questions
1. What happens once Mary Beton/the narrator's narrative ends?
2. What does the narrator find when she returns to reading fiction by a man?
3. What does Woolf encourage women to ignore when setting out to write?
4. 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?
5. What do Lady Winchilsea and Margaret of Newcastle have in common?
6. What does the narrator think that Coleridge meant by a mind that is androgynous?
7. Describe the fictional "Judith."
8. Where does the narrator go to continue her research on women and fiction after visiting the two colleges?
9. How does Woolf preempt the excuses she anticipates hearing from women who are not writing?
10. What effect does the narrator believe that time will have on the role of women in society.
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
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 evolution of women as the narrator takes the reader through it. Include a discussion of women as characters as well as writers.
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