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A Room of One's Own Quiz 1

  • 1. When was Woolf's lecture originally delivered?
    •     June 1942
    •     Jan. 1900
    •     Mar. 1818
    •     Oct. 1928

  • 2. Where was Woolf's lecture originally delivered?
    •     Harvard University
    •     Newnham and Girton
    •     The Sorbonne
    •     University College in Oxford

  • 3. What does the narrator propose women writers should receive?
    •     500 pounds a year and private rooms
    •     Free paper
    •     30,000 pounds a year and private rooms
    •     The vote

  • 4. What is the only kind of mind the narrator believes can attain genius?
    •     The androgynous mind
    •     The female mind
    •     The male mind
    •     The asexual mind

  • 5. What word related to "light" does the narrator frequently associate with genius?
    •     Bright
    •     Incandescent
    •     Lambent
    •     Illuminated

  • 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?
    •     Only Fellows and Scholars are allowed to
    •     She does not have a letter of introduction
    •     No one is allowed to
    •     It has been freshly seeded

  • 8. What must a woman need to enter the university library unaccompanied?
    •     Women are never allowed
    •     A doctorate
    •     A letter of introduction
    •     A research project

  • 9. What is the difference in the food between the men's college and the women's college?
    •     The men's food is saltier
    •     The women receive the men's leftovers
    •     The women's food is superior
    •     The men's food is superior

  • 10. What is curious about the Manx cat the narrator sees?
    •     It is blind
    •     It is missing its tail
    •     It is deaf
    •     It smells

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