Reading for meaning: A Haunted House by Virginia Woolf

Reading for meaning: A Haunted House by Virginia Woolf

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Key learning points

  1. In this lesson, we are going to begin exploring short stories through the modernist writer, Virginia Woolf. We will practise our reading and comprehension as we read and begin to explore themes, characters and setting in her ghost story, 'A Haunted House'.

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5 Questions

Q1.
What is a short story?
a novel
a simple story
a story that is incomplete
Correct answer: a story with a fully developed theme but significantly shorter and less elaborate than a novel
Q2.
Virginia Woolf was part of a literary movement called __________________.
Correct answer: modernism
multiculturalism
post-modernism
romanticism
Q3.
What did modernist writers try to do?
Correct answer: experimented with new forms, styles and methods of writing
only write about computers
tried to reflect the modern world around them
Q4.
In the story A Haunted House, which of the following are true?
The ghostly couple are looking for a lantern.
The ghostly couple have conversations with the living couple.
The ghostly woman died long before her husband.
The living couple only sensed the ghosts once.
The story is set on a dark, wet and windy night.
Correct answer: There are two couples in the story: one living, one dead.
Q5.
Which of the following themes are explored in the story A Haunted House?
greed
Correct answer: love
memory
murder
the supernatural

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