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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. The narrator says that prunes are not _________.

2. What are the beadles doing as the narrator leaves the men's college?

3. Who does the narrator find herself envious of in the museum?

4. What class of women in particular does the narrator claim is absent from history?

5. While reading the newspaper, what is the narrator reminded of?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the narrator ask the reader to call her?

2. As the narrator reaches in her research the fiction of her contemporaries, what progress has been made by women writers?

3. Why is the beadle upset that Mary is walking on the grass of the men's college?

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

5. What does the narrator tell her audience is the reason that they can see the treatment of women through history as so ridiculous?

6. What things are important to a great novel, according to the narrator?

7. What are the two criticisms that Woolf addresses in Chapter 6?

8. What does Mary wonder about the conversation at the Oxbridge luncheon?

9. What major differences does the narrator find between women in fiction and women in history?

10. Where, according to the narrator, did Jane Austen write?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What major obstacles do women writers face, according to the narrator? Provide and describe three examples from the text. At what time, and why, did these obstacles exist? Were they overcome? How? What obstacles still exist?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the consistent references to rhythm and flow throughout the text. What imagery evokes a rhythmic flow in the narrator's story? What does Woolf explicitly say about rhythm and unity?

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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