Choose the statements made by Virginia Woolf about women:

1. A. 'She is born stupid and can do nothing but stupidity.'
2. B. 'She dominates the lives of kings and conquerors in fiction.'
3. C. 'She pervades poetry from cover to cover; she is all but absent from history.'
4. D. She criticized Shakespeare for being harsh and rude to his female characters.
5. E. 'In real life she could hardly read, could scarcely spell, and was the property of her husband.'

1. AA, B and E only
2. BB, C and E only
3. CA, D and E only
4. DA, B and C only

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Correct answer: B. B, C and E only

Explanation

B, C and E come from Chapter 3 of A Room of One's Own (1929), where Woolf contrasts woman's importance in imagination with her insignificance in fact. Woolf never said A, and she praised Shakespeare's women rather than attacking his treatment of them, so D is false.