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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) Deconstructivist.
(c) Proto-feminist.
(d) Anti-individualist.

2. Plutarch is known for his tenderness towards which group of people?
(a) Young women.
(b) Young men.
(c) Elderly women.
(d) Children.

3. What is a typical Virginia Woolf focus in her essays?
(a) Joy.
(b) Death.
(c) Poverty.
(d) The bounty of nature.

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

5. Why did William Hazlitt decide to abandon painting for poetry?
(a) His father forbade him to practice painting.
(b) His wife died, and he suffered a mental breakdown.
(c) He met a snobbish painter who disillusioned him.
(d) He met two famous poets.

Short Answer Questions

1. Plutarch was a priest of which temple?

2. At which university did Abraham Cowley study?

3. What kind of family background did Montaigne come from?

4. What BEST describes the writing styles of Richard Steele and Joseph Addison?

5. What does a woman's level of attachment to a man depend upon, according to Sei Shonagon?

(see the answer key)

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