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1What famous British author was Sir Leslie Stephen's first father-in-law?

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2When was Virginia born?

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3How many siblings, including half-siblings, did Virginia have?

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4What was the title of the massive work Leslie Stephen is best remembered for producing?

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5What famous American author living in England did Leslie Stephen befriend early in his career?

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6What famous American poet was Virginia's godfather?

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7Which of the Stephen children announced early on that s/he wanted to be a painter?

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8What was the title of the little family newspaper Virginia founded when she was a child?

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9In what Cornish town did the Stephens make their summer home?

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10What was the nickname Virginia's family gave her due to her mischievous nature?

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11Which of Virginia's brothers sexually abused her?

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12How old was Virginia when her mother died, an event Virginia would later call "the greatest disaster that could have happened"?

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13What British university did Thoby attend, where he met men who would later make up the core of the Bloomsbury Group?

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14Into which then-shabby London neighborhood did the Stephen children move after Leslie died?

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15Which of the following men was not a classmate of Thoby's at Cambridge?

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16Which of the Bloomsbury Group later became one of England's most famous biographers?

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17Clive Bell, Vanessa's husband, was a

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18Virginia's brother Thoby died of Typhoid Fever after a family trip to which country?

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19How many drafts did Virginia go through in the composition of The Voyage Out?

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20Which member of the Bloomsbury Group proposed to Virginia, then rescinded the offer the next day?

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21What did art critic Roger Fry do in 1910 that caused a major scandal in London?

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22What was the name of the town in which the nursing home where Virginia spent many weeks in her life, recovering from bouts with mania and depression, is located??

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23In what country, then an English colony, did Leonard spent the years 1904–1911 as a colonial administrator?

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24What was the title of Leonard's first novel, inspired by his experiences in Ceylon?

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25In what year were Leonard and Virginia Woolf married?

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26Which of the following artists would not be considered part of the Postimpressionist school?

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27What world event delayed the publication of The Voyage Out?

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28What did Leonard and Virginia name their publishing company?

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29What mental condition did Leonard believe Virginia was suffering from?

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30What book by an unknown Irish writer did Leonard and Virginia recognize as a work of genius but had to turn down due to production limitations of Hogarth Press?

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31Which of Virginia's books did Katherine Mansfield unfavorable review in a London weekly?

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32Lytton Strachey's biography of what British figurehead was considered a work of brilliance when it was published in 1920?

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33What happened to Virginia upon completion of a novel?

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34Which of Virginia's novels was the first full-length novel Hogarth Press published?

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35Which beautiful female writer did Virginia's nephew Quentin Bell say Virginia had an affair with between 1925 and 1929?

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36Which two of Virginia's books are considered to be her most accomplished novels and the best example of Modernist literature?

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37What was a literary technique used by Modernist writers, specifically Virginia and James Joyce?

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38 A Room of One's Own was compiled from a series of lectures Virginia gave at what British university?

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39Virginia Woolf, in A Room of One's Own argues that the best writers are

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40Virginia's light novel Flush purports to be the biography of what famous British poet's dog?

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41What was the name of Lytton Strachey's female companion?

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42In what year did Hitler come to power in Germany?

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43Virginia agreed to write the biography of which member of the Bloomsbury Group?

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44Virginia's nephew Julian Bell was killed in what conflict in 1937?

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45Why did Leonard have more to fear from a Fascist regime than Virginia?

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46What book did Virginia finish a month after the Battle of Britain ceased?

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47When did Virginia commit suicide?

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48How did Virginia commit suicide?

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49How old was Virginia when she died?

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50Which of Virginia's relatives became her most famous biographer?

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