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

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator encourages the audience to "earn 500 a year" by using what?

2. In how many years does the narrator expect for writers like Carmichael to become great?

3. What tone best describes the poetry of Lady Winchilsea?

4. What phrase in Carmichael's novel startles the narrator and starts her reflection on women as characters?

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

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 importance of structure, integrity, and experience in creating fiction. What were the differences in how women approached these things vs. men?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the tone of A Room of One's Own. Compare it to other feminist works. Discuss the use of humor/sarcasm for levity. How is the tone dream-like in some places?

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