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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. What trait does the narrator ascribe to male writers?
2. What subject does the narrator's friend teach at the women's college?
3. What poet does the narrator recite to herself when leaving the luncheon, thinking that men must have hummed at parties before the war?
4. What does the narrator compare to the pile of books she gathers to study about women in the museum's library when it is placed on her desk?
5. What year is this story set in?
Short Essay Questions
1. According to the books the narrator finds about the position of women in history, what treatment of women was typical in England's history?
2. What does the narrator say women writers will begin addressing, as men have done to them?
3. What does the narrator find awkward about Mary Carmichael's novel?
4. What are some arguments Woolf gives against the criticisms of her narrative?
5. What is the dinner at Fernham like?
6. Disappointed with what she has researched so far about women and fiction, what/who does the narrator decide might provide some answers for her upon returning to the British Museum?
7. What motives does Woolf reveal for her lecture?
8. What does the narrator consider as something that men seek in relationships with women?
9. What does the narrator think that Coleridge meant by a mind that is androgynous?
10. Describe the fictional "Judith."
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
Discuss the characterization of Judith. How is she different from her brother? How are they similar? What does she represent to the narrator?
Essay Topic 3
In what ways do readers react to literature? Discuss what the narrator shares about how we respond to style, what readers will accept from a story, etc.
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