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

2. What subject chiefly interests George Orwell?
(a) Politics.
(b) Unexplained phenomenon.
(c) Love.
(d) America.

3. Who wrote "An Essay on the Noble Science of Self-Justification?"
(a) Sei Shonagon.
(b) Charles Lamb.
(c) Maria Edgeworth.
(d) Seneca.

4. Where did Maria Edgeworth get her nontraditional views from?
(a) Her grandmother.
(b) Her Sunday School teacher.
(c) Her father.
(d) Her mother.

5. Who wrote "A Chapter on Ears?"
(a) Charles Lamb.
(b) Plutarch.
(c) Maria Edgeworth.
(d) Abraham Cowley.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Seneca die?

2. Plutarch is known as the first great what?

3. How did Charles Lamb sign many of his essays?

4. What does "Pleasure Boat Studio" refer to?

5. What is wrong with the child in "Of A Monstrous Child?"

(see the answer key)

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