FINAL Shakespeare's sister Exam Questions and Answers

Shakespeare's sister In describing the life of Judith Shakespeare, Virginia Woolf - ANSWER-Fictionalizes about someone whose existence she is uncertain of The tone of Woolf's description of the old gentleman who gives his opinion about women writers and cats is - ANSWER-Satirical Woolf describes Judith Shakespeare's parents as - ANSWER-Typical middle-class parents of their time What do Woolf and the old gentleman agree about? - ANSWER-No English woman in Shakespeare's time could have written Shakespeare's plays In Woolf's vision of Judith Shakespeare's life, Judith does not - ANSWER-Room with her brother Will and ask for his help In order to live a free life in London, Woolf asserts that Judith Shakespeare would have had to give up her- - ANSWER-Dignity Woolf says that female writers were treated with - ANSWER-Hostility and derision Why couldn't Judith Shakespeare have acted in her brothers plays? - ANSWER-Women were not permitted to act onstage in England at that time Woolf says that women writers in the past were "debarred from such alleviation's as came even to Keats or Tennyson or Carlyle, all poor men." In other words, women—- - ANSWER-Did not have opportunities for independent travel and solitude Which virtues does Woolf see as having had a negative impact upon the ability of women writers to become recognized? - ANSWER-Modesty and chastity What kind of essay is "Shakespeare's Sister"? - ANSWER-An informal essay, because it is subjective, expressing the authors individual ideas and feelingsn An essay has all the following traits except it— - ANSWER-Is fictional Which of the following statements supports Woolf's belief that many of the unknown writers referred to as "anonymous" were women? - ANSWER-As late as the mid-nineteenth century, many women used male pen names