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Chapter 3 Woolf
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1
Whose mind is incandescent does she think?
Shakespeare
Tennyson
Milton
Keats
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W decides she needs to ask a historian what? To describe...
under what conditions women lived during time of Elizabeth
how many books have women in them
3
Where does this chapter start off in terms of location?
at home
at church
at the library
at the museum
4
Shakespeare's sister is called WHAT?
Janaquin
Janet
Jasmine
Judith
5
Why is a work of genius difficult to write?
there aren't many genius' out there
because
any distraction caused the work to suffer
have you tried???
6
W says fiction is like being connected to life as a spider's web & in whose case imperceptibly?
Tennyson
Blake
Rossetti
Shakespeare
7
Why for women was it so difficult to write?
To have the ability in the first place was challenging
To have a room of her own was out of the question
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Nothing is known about women before what century?
eighteenth
nineteenth
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wWhat does W say should be the state of mind of a successful writer?
incandescent
undecided
10
Was Lady Bessborough with her passion for politics supportive of women's rights?
No
Yes
11
How does Judith die?
dies of old age
kills herself
starves to death
dies of neglect
12
W thinks about feeding the soul. What do women artists feed on?
prunes and custard
brussel sprouts
cake & ice cream
potatoes
13
What does W think the conditions of a woman's life affected?
her appetite
her lifespan
her state of mind
her desire to write
14
W notes that in life women belong to their husbands & are invisible BUT in the imagination are?
sad, cold & hungry
happy, vacant & varied
amazing, fascinating & varied
stupid, depressing & short
15
What does she find when she looks up "women" - "position of" in the History of England?
Convent
Wife-beating
Marriage
Kitchen
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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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What of the Elizabethan woman?
She is mentioned a lot
History scarcely mentions her
Geographically she was European
She was called Elizabeth
18
Anonymity for women as writers continued into WHAT century?
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19
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'it was an odd monster" if you did what?
Read the poets first & historians afterwards
Read the historians first & the poets afterwards
Read any book written by any gender
Read any books written by men
20
If a woman was born with a great gift in the 16th Century what does W think was her fate?
been feared and mocked at
thought of as half witch & half wizard
ended her days in some lonely cottage outside the village
gone crazed & shot herself
21
Oscar Browning said "The best woman ..." was WHAT?
intellectually the inferior of the best man
intellectually the superior of the worst man
intellectually the superior of the best man
intellectually the inferior of the worst man
22
she discovers that all references to women are focused on - WHAT?
fish
marriage & divorce
knowing their place
cooking
23
According to the old gentleman (Bishop) - women cannot write the plays of Shakespeare and WHAT?
Mice do not go to heaven
Pigs do not to to heaven
Dogs do not go to heaven
Cats do not go to heaven
24
What does inferior food lead to?
superiority
inferiority
25
Women are missing in terms of what?
Subjects
Authors & Publishers
Authors
Authors & Subjects
26
in 1928 Dr Johnson said a "woman's composing [music] is like..." WHAT?
a fish riding a bicycle
a monkey swimming in the sea
a dog walking on it's hind legs.
a cat climbing a tree
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What does she say is a woman's reality?
Practically she is completely insignificant
She could hardly read, scarcely spell & husband's property
She is imaginatively of the highest order
She was locked up, beaten & flung about the room
