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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. How much income does the narrator receive per year?
2. What did women writers do before the eighteenth century to disguise their genders?
3. What is the name of the men's college visited by the narrator?
4. What time is dinner being served at Fernham?
5. Whose influence is all over the paper, and is "the power and the money and the influence," metaphorically?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does the narrator have trouble making notes about her research in Chapter 2?
2. What does the narrator find that she feels when reading Professor von X's work about women?
3. What does the narrator tell her audience is the reason that they can see the treatment of women through history as so ridiculous?
4. What is the dinner at Fernham like?
5. What impact did life experience and/or travel have on some writers, according to the narrator?
6. Where does the narrator go to continue her research on women and fiction after visiting the two colleges?
7. What does the narrator ultimately decide to lecture about instead of "women and fiction?"
8. What does the narrator urge the Carmichael's of the world to ignore?
9. What does the narrator ask the reader to call her?
10. Even though they originally were drawn to poetry, why does the narrator say women wrote novels?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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?
Essay Topic 2
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?
Essay Topic 3
What is the purpose or main thesis of A Room of One's Own? What evidence does Woolf provide to support her thesis?
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