Question 3 of 5What information does Professor Trevelyan provide about women of the 17th century?A.They were not allowed to read.B.They were subjected to prearranged marriages.C.They were not permitted to discipline their children.D.They were given large sums of money when they got married.SUBMITarrow_backPREVIOUS

Question 4 of 5According to Woolf, what behavior was expected of women of the 17th century?A.Learn to read and writeB.Manage a home and the servants employed thereC.Submit to the father's authority regarding marriageD.Earn a wage using domestic skillsSUBMITarrow_backPREVIOUS

Question 3 of 19Read this excerpt from A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf:I went, therefore, to the shelf where the histories stand and took down one of the latest, Professor Trevelyan's History of England. . . . 'Wife-beating', I read, 'was a recognized right of man, and was practised without shame by high as well as low. . . . Similarly,' the historian goes on, 'the daughter who refused to marry the gentleman of her parents' choice was liable to be locked up, beaten and flung about the room. . . .Which statement best conveys how Woolf achieves her purpose in this excerpt?A.She mentions the book title to make sure the reader knows that her argument focuses on England.B.She mentions the book title to make sure the reader knows she is talking about women.C.She cites a historian to make it clear that she is referring to customs from the past.D.She cites a historian to make it clear that she is basing her argument on facts.SUBMITarrow_backPREVIOUS

Question 19 of 19Which question best represents the main idea in Woolf analyzes in A Room of One's Own?A.Why are women important characters in literature but unimportant in history?B.Why couldn't women vote and get involved politically?C.Why didn't women stand up for their rights earlier in history?D.Why were women considered property of their husbands in Shakespeare's time?SUBMITarrow_backPREVIOUS

Question 10 of 10What main question does Woolf ask to help guide her essay's organization?A.Why were men abusive toward women during Shakespeare's day?B.Why are men more talented writers than women?C.Why did women not write poetry during the Elizabethan age?D.Why did fathers force their daughters to marry men they did not love?SUBMITarrow_backPREVIOUS

Question 2 of 19Read this excerpt from A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf:Betrothal often took place while one or both of the parties was in the cradle, and marriage when they were scarcely out of the nurses' charge.' That was about 1470. . . . The next reference to the position of women is some two hundred years later. . . . 'It was still the exception for women of the upper and middle class to choose their own husbands, and when the husband had been assigned, he was lord and master. . . . Yet even so,' Professor Trevelyan concludes, 'neither Shakespeare's women nor those of authentic seventeenth-century memoirs . . . seem wanting in personality and character.'Which sentence best states the idea that this excerpt helps to develop?A.Women were not respected in literature but were given enormous respect in real life.B.Women were represented as being weak in literature but were granted great power in real life.C.Women were represented as being strong in literature but were not allowed power in real life.D.Women were not represented in literature but had great impact on society in real life.SUBMITarrow_backPREVIOUS