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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, The American Scene-Page 479-585.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of family background did Montaigne come from?
(a) His father was rich, but his mother came from a poor family.
(b) Montaigne came from a poor background.
(c) Both his father and mother's families were well-off and prominent.
(d) His mother was rich, but his father came from a poor family.

2. What does a woman's level of attachment to a man depend upon, according to Sei Shonagon?
(a) The quality of gifts the man gives the woman.
(b) The elegance with which a man talks to the woman.
(c) The way a man smells.
(d) The way the man takes his leave of the woman.

3. How did Virginia Woolf die?
(a) She drowned herself.
(b) She was run over by an automobile.
(c) She was shot by a jealous lover.
(d) Of old age.

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

5. What is the implicit message of "An Essay on the Noble Science of Self-Justification?"
(a) Women, like children, should be seen and not heard.
(b) Humans live in a constant state of denial.
(c) Even the greatest vices can be rationalized by the diseased mind.
(d) A woman should be allowed to express her opinion.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which is NOT one of the essays written by Ou-Yank Hsiu?

2. What tragedy did Seymour Krim endure as a child?

3. What accounts for the lack of structure in Montaigne's writing?

4. What term best describes the type of literature written by Virginia Woolf?

5. Robert Louis Stevenson is today best known for what type of writings?

(see the answer key)

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