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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. Which of the following subjects is NOT discussed in Montaigne's "On Some Verses..." essay?
(a) Disease.
(b) Divorce.
(c) Vice.
(d) Death.

2. Who wrote "The Ring of Time?"
(a) Wendell Berry.
(b) E. B. White.
(c) Gore Vidal.
(d) Joan Didion.

3. What does the author think of the lake he revisits in "Once More to the Lake?"
(a) The lake has improved because of technology.
(b) No actual lake is mentioned in the essay.
(c) The lake has suffered from the effects of technology and modernization.
(d) The lake is just the same as the author remembered it.

4. Who wrote "Once More to the Lake"?
(a) E. B. White.
(b) Maria Edgeworth.
(c) Charles Lamb.
(d) Sara Suleri.

5. What title did Thurber give to his humorous autobiographical essay?
(a) Autobiography of a Biographist.
(b) James Thurber: Confidential.
(c) James Thurber, I Hardly Knew You.
(d) The Secret Life of James Thurber.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote "An Apology for Idlers?"

2. From his second book on, what subject did Montaigne promise to pursue?

3. What is the name of Montaigne's best friend?

4. Henry David Thoreau is well known as being what?

5. Which famous author does Michel de Montaigne rely upon for several quotations in the final essay in the volume?

(see the answer key)

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