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This test consists of 5 short answer questions and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the case of Charlotte Bronte, what does the narrator claim Bronte's gender interfered with?

2. Whose point of view takes over for the narrator at the end of Chapter 6?

3. The narrator contends that education ought to bring out the ________ between the sexes.

4. Who does the narrator give as an example of someone who wrote with both sides of his brain?

5. What, according to the narrator, is it fatal for anyone who writes to do?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Explain the use of literary allusions in A Room of One's Own. Who/what is mentioned? How do these people and works relate to the story? What does the prevalence of allusions indirectly say about the author's own intelligence?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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