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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. Robert Louis Stevenson is today best known for what type of writings?
(a) Diary entries.
(b) Poems.
(c) Essays.
(d) Novels.

2. What did Kenko become in 1324?
(a) An ambassador.
(b) The emperor of Japan.
(c) A Buddhist monk.
(d) A blacksmith.

3. Who wrote "Such, Such Were the Joys..."?
(a) George Orwell.
(b) William Hazlitt.
(c) Sei Shonagon.
(d) Richard Steele.

4. Plutarch is known as the first great what?
(a) Storyteller.
(b) Personal essayist.
(c) Biographer.
(d) Playwright.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following labels BEST describe the writings of Montaigne?

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

3. Why is Plutarch consoling his wife in "Consolation to His Wife?"

4. What is a typical Virginia Woolf focus in her essays?

5. Who wrote "Nicolini and the Lions?"

(see the answer key)

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