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

Short Answer Questions

1. What, according to the narrator, has given women wider range in fiction?

2. What does the narrator say the sight of a woman "creating in a different medium than his own" does to a man?

3. What kind of writer is Mr. B?

4. According to the narrator, Austen, Bronte, and others wrote as ________ wrote, not as men did.

5. What, according to the narrator, were the relationships between those who have sought the company of women NOT?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the shift in point of view that takes place at the end of the novel. Why is it important? How does Woolf address potential critics? What does she reveal as the motive for this lecture?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Does money truly lead to freedom? How does this concept apply across both genders? How does having a fixed income inhibit or expand the narrator's ability to draw conclusions about women and fiction?

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