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Chapter 3 Woolf
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Chapter 3
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1
in 1928 Dr Johnson said a "woman's composing [music] is like..." WHAT?
a cat climbing a tree
a dog walking on it's hind legs.
a monkey swimming in the sea
a fish riding a bicycle
2
What of the Elizabethan woman?
Geographically she was European
She is mentioned a lot
History scarcely mentions her
She was called Elizabeth
3
W notes that in life women belong to their husbands & are invisible BUT in the imagination are?
stupid, depressing & short
amazing, fascinating & varied
sad, cold & hungry
happy, vacant & varied
4
Whose mind is incandescent does she think?
Milton
Keats
Tennyson
Shakespeare
5
Nothing is known about women before what century?
eighteenth
nineteenth
6
W decides she needs to ask a historian what? To describe...
how many books have women in them
under what conditions women lived during time of Elizabeth
7
Women are missing in terms of what?
Authors & Subjects
Subjects
Authors & Publishers
Authors
8
What does she find when she looks up "women" - "position of" in the History of England?
Wife-beating
Convent
Kitchen
Marriage
9
If a woman was born with a great gift in the 16th Century what does W think was her fate?
thought of as half witch & half wizard
ended her days in some lonely cottage outside the village
gone crazed & shot herself
been feared and mocked at
10
According to the old gentleman (Bishop) - women cannot write the plays of Shakespeare and WHAT?
Dogs do not go to heaven
Pigs do not to to heaven
Cats do not go to heaven
Mice do not go to heaven
11
What does she say is a woman's reality?
She was locked up, beaten & flung about the room
She could hardly read, scarcely spell & husband's property
Practically she is completely insignificant
She is imaginatively of the highest order
12
finish "For it's a perennial puzzle why no woman wrote a word of that extraordinary literature"
when every other man, it seemed, was capable of writing
when every other man, it seemed, was capable of song
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'it was an odd monster" if you did what?
Read the poets first & historians afterwards
Read any books written by men
Read the historians first & the poets afterwards
Read any book written by any gender
14
Where does this chapter start off in terms of location?
at home
at church
at the library
at the museum
15
How does Judith die?
dies of neglect
starves to death
kills herself
dies of old age
16
What does W think the conditions of a woman's life affected?
her appetite
her state of mind
her lifespan
her desire to write
17
Why is a work of genius difficult to write?
any distraction caused the work to suffer
because
have you tried???
there aren't many genius' out there
18
W says fiction is like being connected to life as a spider's web & in whose case imperceptibly?
Blake
Shakespeare
Rossetti
Tennyson
19
Shakespeare's sister is called WHAT?
Janet
Judith
Janaquin
Jasmine
20
W thinks about feeding the soul. What do women artists feed on?
prunes and custard
cake & ice cream
brussel sprouts
potatoes
21
wWhat does W say should be the state of mind of a successful writer?
incandescent
undecided
22
Anonymity for women as writers continued into WHAT century?
16
17
18
19
23
she discovers that all references to women are focused on - WHAT?
fish
cooking
knowing their place
marriage & divorce
24
Why for women was it so difficult to write?
To have a room of her own was out of the question
To have the ability in the first place was challenging
25
Oscar Browning said "The best woman ..." was WHAT?
intellectually the superior of the best man
intellectually the inferior of the best man
intellectually the inferior of the worst man
intellectually the superior of the worst man
26
Was Lady Bessborough with her passion for politics supportive of women's rights?
Yes
No
27
What does inferior food lead to?
inferiority
superiority
