A Room of One’s Own Quizzes

A Room of One's Own Quiz 1

1 When was Woolf's lecture originally delivered?
Oct. 1928

Mar. 1818

Jan. 1900

June 1942
2 Where was Woolf's lecture originally delivered?
Newnham and Girton

The Sorbonne

University College in Oxford

Harvard University
3 What does the narrator propose women writers should receive?
500 pounds a year and private rooms

The vote

Free paper

30,000 pounds a year and private rooms
4 What is the only kind of mind the narrator believes can attain genius?
The androgynous mind

The male mind

The asexual mind

The female mind
5 What word related to "light" does the narrator frequently associate with genius?
Bright

Illuminated

Lambent

Incandescent
6 What sight makes the narrator reflect upon androgyny?
A young boy

The Manx cat

An old man

A man and woman getting into a taxi
7 Why is the narrator not allowed to cross the lawn?
She does not have a letter of introduction

Only Fellows and Scholars are allowed to

It has been freshly seeded

No one is allowed to
8 What must a woman need to enter the university library unaccompanied?
A letter of introduction

A research project

Women are never allowed

A doctorate
9 What is the difference in the food between the men's college and the women's college?
The women's food is superior

The women receive the men's leftovers

The men's food is saltier

The men's food is superior
10 What is curious about the Manx cat the narrator sees?
It smells

It is deaf

It is missing its tail

It is blind
11 What does the Manx cat make the narrator think about?
Karl Marx

The future of England

Pre-war England

Dogs
12 Why does the narrator believe the writing of women such as Charlotte Brontë often suffers?
They write out of anger or insecurity

They have limited experience

They have not been trained in writing

They are not geniuses
13 Why does the narrator believe the writing of men often suffers?
They have too much experience

They are not geniuses

They have been overeducated

They write out of aggression
14 To what everyday object does the narrator liken the enlarging/belittling relationship between men and women?
Hairbrush

Looking-glass

Toothbrush

Mirror
15 Which 19th-century female novelist does the narrator laud for her unhampered genius?
Emily Bront

Jane Austen

Charlotte Bront

George Eliot
16 Which female writer was the first to earn money through her writing?
Aphra Behn

Virginia Woolf

Jane Austen

Emily Bront
17 Why did English women not keep their own money until recently?
They did not know how to manage it

They did not want it

Their property went to their husbands

Their property went to their fathers
18 What did writers like Jane Austen frequently do because of their lack of privacy?
They mentally composed novels, then wrote

They built their own rooms

They hid their manuscripts as they wrote

They embroidered their novels
19 Why does the narrator believe 19th-century women writers focused on the novel?
It was a new and pliable form

They had failed at poetry

They preferred them to plays

It was smarter
20 What is odd about the 19th-century women writers' choice of the novel?
Philosophy is more sophisticated

Poetry is more feminine

Plays are more social

Novels require more concentration and privacy
21 What is the name the narrator gives to William Shakespeare's imaginary sister?
Elizabeth

Bess

Judith

Ellen
22 How does Judith die?
Suicide

Murder

In childbirth

Of old age
23 What does the narrator believe her inheritance is more important than?
Freedom of religion

Suffrage

Her private room

Free speech
24 From whom did the narrator receive her inheritance?
Her mother

Her aunt

Her father

Her uncle
25 Why is the food at the women's college inferior to that at the men's college?
They receive the men's leftovers

The women prefer bland food

The college has less money

The cooks are less experienced

In the novel, Judith, the fictional sister of William Shakespeare, lives a life of unrealized genius: though just as brilliant as her brother, Judith is unable to fulfill her potential in her patriarchal Elizabethan society and eventually commits...

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