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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 is NOT a feature of Charles Lamb's writing?
(a) Excessive moralizing.
(b) Pen names.
(c) Exaggerated metaphors.
(d) Mockery.

2. What was the profession of Seneca the Younger's father?
(a) General.
(b) Gladiator.
(c) Moneychanger.
(d) Writer.

3. What is ironic about the Montaigne essay title, "Of a Monstrous Child?"?
(a) Montaigne is obliquely refer to gluttony, stating that it is born "of a monstrous child."
(b) The child talked about is in fact saintly and kind.
(c) The "monster" is a man who only behaves like a child.
(d) Montaigne is in fact arguing that nothing is "monstrous" by nature.

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

5. What colorful phrase does Seneca provide as another way to describe asthma?
(a) Speechless sweeps.
(b) Hellish hiccups.
(c) Rehearsing death.
(d) Sucking wind.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Michel de Montaigne considered to be?

2. Who wrote "A Chapter on Ears?"

3. Who wrote "Street Haunting?"

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

5. Who wrote "On the Pleasure of Hating"?

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