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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. In Chapter 2, what bill does the narrator give the waiter to pay for her meal?
2. According to the narrator, men have often compared the idea of women creating anything like fiction or music to what?
3. What common factor is there in all of the writings the narrator reads about women?
4. According to the narrator, which animal lives the longest of all animals?
5. Who is upset that the narrator is walking on the grass at Oxbridge?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Woolf encourage women to ignore when setting out to write?
2. 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?
3. What is the narrator observing at the beginning of Chapter 6 that sets her on a discussion of the flow and unity of the sexes?
4. What kinds of things does Dorothy write about, in contrast to the Lady and Margaret?
5. What major differences does the narrator find between women in fiction and women in history?
6. Where, according to the narrator, does genius like that of Shakespeare's come from?
7. What, according to the narrator as she reflects on her financial situation, will eat away at the spirit over time?
8. What impact did life experience and/or travel have on some writers, according to the narrator?
9. What does Mary wonder about the conversation at the Oxbridge luncheon?
10. What are Woolf's closing remarks about Judith?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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.
Essay Topic 2
Explain the theme of emotion vs. reason that is presented in the novel. What does the narrator make of the "facts" presented about women, and are they facts at all? How does the narrator conclude that anger fuels some writing about the relations between the sexes? What other applications does the theme have to gender relations?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the reasons why women were more successful, initially, in writing novels than in writing poetry.
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