Question 4Multiple Choice Worth 2 points)
(01.05 MC)
The following question is about this excerpt from the essay "A Room of One's Own" by Virginia Woolf
It was disappointing not to have brought back in the evening some important statement, some authentic fact. Women are poorer
than men because this or that. Perhaps now it would be better to give up seeking for the truth, and receiving on one's head an
avalanche of opinion not as lava, discoloured as dish-water. It would be better to draw the curtains; to shut out distractions; to light
the lamp, to narrow the enquiry and to ask the historian, who records not opinions but facts, to describe under what conditions
women ived, not throughout the ages, but in England, say, in the time of Elizabeth
For it is a perennial puzzle why no woman wrote a word of that extraordinary literature when every other man, it seemed, was
capable of song or sonnet. What were the conditions in which women ived? I asked myself, for fiction, imaginative work that is, is
not dropped like a pebble upon the ground, as science may be; fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lighty perhaps, but
still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible, Shakespeare's plays, for instance, seem to
hang there complete by themselves. But when the web is pulled askew, hooked up at the edge, torn in the middle, one remembers
that these webs are not spun in mid-air by incorporeal creatures, but are the work of suffering human beings, and are attached to
grossly material things, like health and money and the houses we live in...
A very queer, composite being thus emerges Imaginatively she is of the highest importance, practically she is completely
insignificant. She pervades poetry from cover to cover, she is all but absent from history. She dominates the lives of kings and
conquerors in fiction, in fact she was the slave of any boy whose parents forced a ring upon her finger. Some of the most inspired
words, some of the most profound thoughts in literature fall from her lips; in real life she could hardly read, could scarcely spell,
and was the property of her husband
Which of the following is the best example of an allusion?
O'For it is a perennial puzzle
Ofor fiction, imaginative work that is, is not dropped like a pebble upon the ground, as science may be
On the time of Elizabeth
O'What were the conditions in which women lived?