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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. Which of the following labels BEST describe the writings of Montaigne?
(a) Ultra-conservative.
(b) Anti-individualist.
(c) Deconstructivist.
(d) Proto-feminist.

2. What career did Montaigne have prior to writing?
(a) He was a teacher.
(b) He was a court clerk.
(c) He was a tanner.
(d) He was an attorney.

3. When was Virginia Woolf born?
(a) 1475 A. D.
(b) 1882 A. D.
(c) 1772 A. D.
(d) 1616 A. D.

4. What is Richard Steele's message in his essay "Twenty-four Hours in London"?
(a) Hedonism, in the form of drinking and carousing, is the greatest good.
(b) Londoners are cruel, petty people.
(c) One's attitude toward the world should be one of simple enjoyment, rather than desire for material gain.
(d) Everything that should be seen in London can be seen in the span of twenty-four hours.

5. In "On Noise," what is necessary for a person to ignore the noise of the outside world?
(a) Inner peace.
(b) One must venture into the world in order to quiet it.
(c) Excellent earplugs.
(d) A goal to concentrate on with singular focus.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Montaigne admit in "Of Books?"

2. What illness did Virginia Woolf have to deal with at several times in her life?

3. Which of the following is NOT a well-known story written by Robert Louis Stevenson?

4. What might best describe the attitude of the author in "Such, Such Were the Joys..."?

5. Why did William Hazlitt decide to abandon painting for poetry?

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