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

June 1942

Mar. 1818

Jan. 1900
2 Where was Woolf's lecture originally delivered?
The Sorbonne

Harvard University

Newnham and Girton

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

Free paper

The vote

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 female mind

The asexual mind

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

Incandescent

Lambent

Bright
6 What sight makes the narrator reflect upon androgyny?
A man and woman getting into a taxi

A young boy

The Manx cat

An old man
7 Why is the narrator not allowed to cross the lawn?
No one is allowed to

It has been freshly seeded

Only Fellows and Scholars are allowed to

She does not have a letter of introduction
8 What must a woman need to enter the university library unaccompanied?
A research project

A doctorate

Women are never allowed

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

The women receive the men's leftovers

The men's food is saltier

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

It is missing its tail

It is deaf

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

The future of England

Karl Marx

Pre-war England
12 Why does the narrator believe the writing of women such as Charlotte Brontë often suffers?
They have limited experience

They are not geniuses

They have not been trained in writing

They write out of anger or insecurity
13 Why does the narrator believe the writing of men often suffers?
They have been overeducated

They have too much experience

They write out of aggression

They are not geniuses
14 To what everyday object does the narrator liken the enlarging/belittling relationship between men and women?
Looking-glass

Toothbrush

Hairbrush

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

Emily Bront

Charlotte Bront

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

Aphra Behn

Virginia Woolf

Emily Bront
17 Why did English women not keep their own money until recently?
They did not want it

Their property went to their fathers

Their property went to their husbands

They did not know how to manage it
18 What did writers like Jane Austen frequently do because of their lack of privacy?
They built their own rooms

They mentally composed novels, then wrote

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?
They preferred them to plays

It was smarter

It was a new and pliable form

They had failed at poetry
20 What is odd about the 19th-century women writers' choice of the novel?
Plays are more social

Novels require more concentration and privacy

Poetry is more feminine

Philosophy is more sophisticated
21 What is the name the narrator gives to William Shakespeare's imaginary sister?
Elizabeth

Bess

Ellen

Judith
22 How does Judith die?
Of old age

In childbirth

Suicide

Murder
23 What does the narrator believe her inheritance is more important than?
Free speech

Freedom of religion

Suffrage

Her private room
24 From whom did the narrator receive her inheritance?
Her uncle

Her mother

Her aunt

Her father
25 Why is the food at the women's college inferior to that at the men's college?
The cooks are less experienced

The college has less money

The women prefer bland food

They receive the men's leftovers

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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