"Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown"
Virginia Woolf
Woolf's Texts
"Mrs. Dalloway" Characters
Writing & Storytelling
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Mr. Bennett from the title "Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown" is referring to whom?
English author Arnold Bennett (1867-1931).
100
What is the name of either her elder painter sister or her husband?
Vanessa Bell or Leonard Woolf.
100
What is this essay where Woolf an important point being made is that a woman must have money and a room in order to write fiction?
A Room of One's Own.
100
Who is the host of the party later in the evening?
Clarissa Dalloway.
100
What are the five parts of the well known Freytag's pyramid of narrative structure?
Exposition, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, and Resolution.
200
What is the name Woolf gives the man Mrs. Brown speaks to on the train?
Mr. Smith.
200
What is the title of Virginia Woolf's first novel?
The Voyage Out.
200
What is this text that is Woolf's response to a series of letters where she answers the prevention of war, why the government does not support education for women, and professional occupations that are not allowed for women?
Three Guineas.
200
Who is the daughter of the Dalloway family?
Elizabeth Dalloway.
200
What is the name of this common story template that was popularized by Joseph Campbell?
The Hero's Journey.
300
This cover was illustrated by whom?
Vanessa Bell. Virginia Woolf's sister.
300
After Woolf's death, she regained prominence for her works with the growth of feminist criticism in what decade?
1970s.
300
What is the name of this novel that follows a specific family from the 1880s to the 1930s with sections detailed in certain years?
The Years.
300
Who is the one who has hallucinations of their deceased friend?
Septimus Warren Smith.
300
In a narrative story, it can be said that a plot, characters, setting, structure, theme, point of view, and something else is needed. What is the "something else"?
Conflict.
400
"Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown" came to fruition as Woolf's response to Mr. Bennett's review of what novel?
Jacob's Room by Virginia Woolf.
400
What was Virginia Woolf's last novel she worked on that was published after her passing?
Between the Acts.
400
What is the name of this novel of following the lives of six narrators from childhood to adulthood that Woolf explores the individuality, self, and community?
The Waves.
400
Who is this character who fell in love with a married individual in India and therefore arranges a way to divorce their current partner?
Peter Walsh.
400
In "Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown", what does Woolf state about the relationship between reader and writer when creating a character or story?
"Your part is to insist that writers shall come down off their plinths and pedestals, and describe beautifully if possible, truthfully at any rate, our Mrs. Brown," (Woolf 23).
500
Virginia Woolf states that Mr. Bennett is a writer from a previous generation and that the present generation write differently and are titled differently. What are the names of these two generations of writers?
Edwardians and Georgians with Mr. Bennett belonging to the former.
500
In 1915, Virginia and Leonard moved to Richmond in what building?
Hogarth House, Paradise Road.
500
What is this novel of a family and their specific visits to the Isle of Skye Scotland?
To The Lighthouse.
500
Who is a schoolmistress in history and has quite the dislikes of Mrs. Dalloway?
Miss Doris Kilman.
500
What is this method of "to depict the multitudinous thoughts and feelings which pass through the mind" of a narrator?
Stream of Consciousness.