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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. On what subject is Sei Shonagon particularly frank?
(a) Bedroom behavior.
(b) The amount of her personal wealth.
(c) Her disease.
(d) Her hatred for foreigners.

2. According to Montaigne, what is the source of the difference between men and women?
(a) Custom and education.
(b) Genetics.
(c) Emotion.
(d) Divine intervention.

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

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

5. What accounts for the lack of structure in Montaigne's writing?
(a) The traditional manner in which academics have structured the papers is nearly nonsensical.
(b) Montaigne follows his thoughts wherever they lead him.
(c) Many of Montaigne's original writings were burned in a fire.
(d) Montaigne constantly goes on tangents in which he expresses his love for his wife.

Short Answer Questions

1. What physical condition does Seneca discuss in a titular essay?

2. Where did Maria Edgeworth get her nontraditional views from?

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

4. At which university did Abraham Cowley study?

5. What colorful phrase does Seneca provide as another way to describe asthma?

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