MCQs- Biograpahy and Works of Virginia Woolf- for JL/DL

MCQs - Biography and Works of Virginia Woolf

1. When was Virginia Woolf born?

A. 1882

B. 1891

C. 1900

D. 1910

 

2. Virginia Woolf was born in:

A. Paris

B. 22 Hyde Park Gate, London

C. Edinburgh

D. Dublin

 

3. Her father, Leslie Stephen, was the editor of:

A. Oxford English Dictionary

B. Dictionary of National Biography

C. Encyclopedia Britannica

D. Times Literary Supplement

 

4. What was Virginia Woolf's birth name?

A. Virginia Stephen

B. Virginia Woolf

C. Adeline Virginia Stephen

D. Virginia Leonard

 

5. Which was Woolf’s first novel?

A. Mrs. Dalloway

B. The Voyage Out

C. Jacob’s Room

D. To the Lighthouse

 

6. What was the name of Virginia Woolf's famous essay on the role of women in literature?

A. "A Room of One's Own"

B. "To the Lighthouse"

C. "Mrs. Dalloway"

D. "The Waves"

 

7. Which of the following was NOT a member of the Bloomsbury Group, of which Virginia Woolf was a part?

A. E.M. Forster

B. T.S. Eliot

C. Duncan Grant

D. Vanessa Bell

 

8. Which of the following novels by Virginia Woolf is considered a modernist masterpiece?

A. "The Voyage Out"

B. "Orlando"

C. "Mrs. Dalloway"

D. "Night and Day"

 

9. Which was Woolf’s first novel?

A. Mrs. Dalloway

B. The Voyage Out

C. Jacob’s Room

D. To the Lighthouse

 

10. Which novel introduced Clarissa Dalloway?

A. Mrs. Dalloway

B. The Voyage Out

C. Night and Day

D. The Waves

 

11. Which novel is about a war veteran who commits suicide?

A. Jacob’s Room

B. Mrs. Dalloway

C. The Waves

D. Orlando

 

12. Which novel features the Ramsay family?

A. To the Lighthouse

B. The Years

C. Between the Acts

D. Orlando

 

13. Which novel features a gender-changing protagonist?

A. Orlando

B. The Waves

C. Flush

D. Between the Acts

 

14. Which novel is considered Woolf’s most experimental?

A. The Waves

B. Mrs. Dalloway

C. Jacob’s Room

D. The Years

 

15. What was the title of Virginia Woolf's last novel, published posthumously?

A. "The Waves"

B. "Between the Acts"

C. "To the Lighthouse"

D. "Jacob's Room"

 

16. What was the name of Virginia Woolf's husband?

A. Leonard Woolf

B. E.M. Forster

C. T.S. Eliot

D. Percy Bysshe Shelley

 

17. Virginia and Leonard Woolf founded:

A. The Times

B. Hogarth Press

C. The Criterion

D. The London Magazine

 

18. What was the name of Virginia Woolf's sister, who was also a writer?

A. Vanessa Bell

B. Angelica Garnett

C. Hermione Lee

D. Vanessa Stephen

 

19. Which of the following works by Virginia Woolf is a semi-autobiographical novel?

A. "To the Lighthouse"

B. "The Waves"

C. "Orlando"

D. "Night and Day"

 

20. What was the title of Virginia Woolf's collection of essays on reading and writing?

A. "The Common Reader"

B. "The Years"

C. "Flush"

D. "The London Scene"

 

21. Which of Virginia Woolf's novels is narrated from the perspectives of multiple characters?

A. "Mrs. Dalloway"

B. "To the Lighthouse"

C. "Orlando"

D. "Night and Day"

 

22. Which of the following is NOT a theme commonly found in Virginia Woolf's works?

A. Feminism

B. Mental illness

C. The supernatural

D. Social class

 

23. What was the name of Virginia Woolf's non-fiction book that examines the life of Elizabethan poet, Elizabeth Barrett Browning?

A. Flush: A Biography

B. A Room of One's Own

C. Three Guineas

D. The Death of the Moth and Other Essays

24. What was the title of Virginia Woolf's book that fictionalizes the lives of her parents and explores her own childhood?

A. Mrs. Dalloway

B. To the Lighthouse

C. Orlando

D. The Years

 

25. Which of Virginia Woolf's works is a satirical biography of her close friend, the art historian Roger Fry?

A. Jacob's Room

B. Between the Acts

C. Flush: A Biography

D. The Waves

 

26. What was the title of Virginia Woolf's unfinished novel, which was published after her death in 1941?

A. The Years

B. Between the Acts

C. The Waves

D. The Voyage Out

 

27. In what year did Virginia Woolf publish her most famous novel, "Mrs. Dalloway"?

A. 1910

B. 1925

C. 1931

D. 1941

 

28. Which essay argues that women need money and a room to write?

A. Three Guineas

B. A Room of One’s Own

C. Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown

D. The Modern Fiction

 

29. Who is Judith Shakespeare?

A. A real historical figure

B. Woolf’s pen name

C. A fictional suppressed female genius

D. Shakespeare’s wife

 

30. Which essay critiques Arnold Bennett?

A. Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown

B. On Being Ill

C. The London Scene

D. A Letter to a Young Poet

 

31. Which essay claims "human character changed in 1910"?

A. The Modern Fiction

B. Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown

C. A Room of One’s Own

D. Three Guineas

 

32. Which work is a biography of a dog?

A. Roger Fry

B. Flush

C. Orlando

D. The Years

 

33. Which literary technique is Woolf famous for?

A. Stream of consciousness

B. Satire

C. Epic poetry

D. Gothic horror

 

34.Woolf’s Professions for Women was originally a:

A. Novel

B. Speech

C. Diary entry

D. Newspaper column

 

35. Which novel was inspired by Vita Sackville-West?

A. Orlando

B. The Waves

C. Flush

D. The Years

 

36. Virginia committed suicide by:

A. Poison

B. Drowning

C. Jumping into the River Ouse

D. Hanging

 

37. In what year did Virginia Woolf die?

A. 1931

B. 1941

C. 1951

D. 1961

 

Answers: Virginia Woolf
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11. B	12. A	13. A	14. A	15. B	16. A	17. B	18. D	19. C	20. A
21. B	22. C	23. A	24. D	25. C	26. B	27. B	28. B	29. C	30. A
31. B	32. B	33. A	34. B	35. A	36. C	37. B	38.	39.	40.