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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

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Introduction:
"The play "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" makes her sound like a monster. Actually, she is funny, sincere and most definitely worth knowing about."


1. What was the name of the group of writers, artists, economists and philosophers of the early 20th century with whom Woolf was associated?
    The Impressionists
    The Dadaists
    The Bow Group
    The Bloomsbury Group


2. Her childhood was haunted by death (her mother's in particular) and what she thought was sexual abuse by relatives. She worked her way out of some of this by writing and in her marriage to a famous social activist and writer. What was the first name of her husband who would later advise against her having a child since he thought her mind was too unstable for motherhood?
    Roger
    Leonard
    Fydor
    Lytton


3. Virginia Woolf was the daughter of a famous nineteenth century scholar and the first editor of the "Dictionary of National Biography." He inspired a mixture of admiration and fear in Woolf. Her maiden name could be a man's name.
    Duckworth
    Stephen
    Forster
    Mansfield


4. What is the name of Woolf's most famous journey novel, which many say is modelled on her parents? In this novel they are called Mr. and Mrs. Ramsay.
    "The Voyage Out"
    "To the Lighthouse"
    "Prelude"
    "The Waves"


5. Woolf wanted to find a new kind of novel which was neither fictional nor factual. Her effort to write such a book brought about one of her mental breakdowns. What is the title of her narrative effort to capture the sense of time passing and the contours of historical periods?
    "The Years"
    "Roger Fry, A Biography"
    "Jacob's Room"
    "Between the Acts"


6. Woolf's novel "Mrs. Dalloway" takes place in one day, contrasting the story of Clarissa Dalloway with the life of traumatized World War I veteran Septimus Smith. This structure has reminded many critics of "Ulysses," the Modernist novel by an Irish writer, famous for his novel "Portrait of The Artist a Young Man." Which writer?
    Oscar Wilde
    William Butler Yeats
    James Joyce
    Dylan Thomas


7. Woolf's name is often equated with her book of essays called "A Room of One's Own," in which she explores women's creativity and education. She examines women writers and mental attitudes of people and speaks a lot of a kind of mental equality. What is her name for this balance?
    Androgyny
    Metamorphosis
    Equality
    Hermaphrodism


8. Woolf's writing is new. It is not only stream of consciousness, with the author taking a picture of the contents of a person thinking. Woolf sees it more intimately. What does she call her method?
    Digging
    Inner thoughts
    Dreaming Stream
    Tunnelling


9. Following the bombing of their home in London in World War II, the Woolfs left London and lived permanently at their second home in Sussex. At this time, she was composing her final novel which was structured like a theater perfomance. It was like a play within a novel, with the audience a active part of what was going on.
    "The Years"
    "Freshwater"
    "Night and Day"
    "Between the Acts"


10. In those final years of her life, she did not feel she could write ever again. In 1941, she wrote two suicide notes to her husband. How did she kill herself?
    Lay down on a busy street in London
    Took an overdose of barbiturates
    Filled her pockets with stones and drowned in the River Ouse
    Set the house on fire


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