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

2. According to the narrator, "Women do not write books about ______."

3. What does a woman need in order to write fiction, according to Woolf?

4. What topic has the narrator asked to lecture about?

5. Where does the narrator go after visiting Oxbridge and Fernham?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are Woolf's closing remarks about Judith?

2. What effect does the narrator believe that time will have on the role of women in society.

3. What happens once Mary Beton/the narrator's narrative ends?

4. What is interesting about the way the narrator says that she addresses Mary Carmichael?

5. What kinds of things does Dorothy write about, in contrast to the Lady and Margaret?

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

7. What is the narrator observing at the beginning of Chapter 6 that sets her on a discussion of the flow and unity of the sexes?

8. 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?

9. According to the narrator, what challenges will Mary Carmichael face as a writer?

10. What does the narrator find that she feels when reading Professor von X's work about women?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the evolution of women as the narrator takes the reader through it. Include a discussion of women as characters as well as writers.

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

What does the narrator seem to say about relationships, both between characters and real people? What do we seek in relationships, according to the narrator?

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