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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, what does a woman with creative talent inevitably lose?
2. What topic has the narrator asked to lecture about?
3. According to the narrator, men have often compared the idea of women creating anything like fiction or music to what?
4. What meanings does the narrator present as possibilities for discussing the lecture topic?
5. What does the narrator compare to the feeling of having had a good meal and good conversation?
Short Essay Questions
1. According to the books the narrator finds about the position of women in history, what treatment of women was typical in England's history?
2. Why is the beadle upset that Mary is walking on the grass of the men's college?
3. What does the narrator urge the Carmichael's of the world to ignore?
4. What is the source and amount of the narrator's income?
5. What things are important to a great novel, according to the narrator?
6. What is interesting about the way the narrator says that she addresses Mary Carmichael?
7. What does the narrator consider as something that men seek in relationships with women?
8. 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?
9. What does the narrator find that she feels when reading Professor von X's work about women?
10. Even though they originally were drawn to poetry, why does the narrator say women wrote novels?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
Is A Room of One's Own a work of fiction, or merely an essay? Discuss the structure of the story and the elements of fiction within it.
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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