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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, The Rise of the English Essay-Page 212-302.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What place does Seneca describe in "Scipio's Villa?"
(a) The palace.
(b) The temple.
(c) The arena.
(d) The farm.

2. What is wrong with the child in "Of A Monstrous Child?"
(a) The child was born badly deformed.
(b) The child had both male and female sexual organs.
(c) The child was born with three eyes.
(d) The child is a criminal and menace to the town.

3. Who wrote "The Death of the Moth?"
(a) Virginia Woolf.
(b) Kenko.
(c) Maria Edgeworth.
(d) Max Beerbohm.

4. Which place did Charles Lamb occupy amongst his siblings?
(a) He was the youngest.
(b) He was the eldest.
(c) He was an only child.
(d) He was the middle child.

5. Who raised Charles Lamb?
(a) The state.
(b) His grandmother.
(c) His older sister.
(d) His uncle.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which trait BEST describes what others thought of Michel de Montaigne in his youth?

2. In Montaigne's "On Some Verses..." essay, what opinion does he express about the sexes?

3. What kind of social company does Sei Shonagon express hatred for in "Hateful Things?"

4. Which person in Virginia Woolf's life died when Woolf was very young?

5. Who wrote "The Lantern-Bearers"?

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