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A Room of One's Own (Chapter 2)

Quiz by Sarah Wilkinson

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  • Q1
    Why does Woolf pose questions about women and poverty?
    Women can hardly support themselves with what little money they may have from their jobs.
    Discusses how women have more than just one job compared to their male counterparts.
    Showcases how both genders have different financial situations.
    All of the above
    30s
  • Q2
    Male authors wrote about women in a truthful, insulting, or told lies about a woman's character.
    False
    True
    30s
  • Q3
    Why did men write about women and women; also; wrote about women?
    Women were trying to create a voice for themselves in their writing.
    All of the above
    Men were trying to define women.
    None of the above
    30s
  • Q4
    Woolf discusses the concept of anger on both sides; male and female authors. What is she implying about anger?
    All of the above
    None of the above
    Represents how Woolf feels about male authors or males in general because they have made women feel below them by writing books about them; however, she notes that male authors are angry too. The reason could be that male authors fear and are jealous of women authors entering their territory in fiction writing and that women authors could write better novels.
    Male authors also felt as if their dominance in the writing field was being challenged by female authors; despite that they had more opportunities to be successful and their superiority being far greater than the other.
    30s
  • Q5
    Male authors WOULD be successful without writing about women in Woolf's opinion.
    False
    True
    30s

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