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

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does the narrator refer as a "complex force?"

2. What does the narrator use as a less offensive word for "vanities?"

3. The narrator says that "the majority of women are neither _______ nor courtesans."

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

5. The writing of the Duchess compares the lives of women to those of what animals?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 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

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.

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