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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, The American Scene-Page 479-585.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does a woman's level of attachment to a man depend upon, according to Sei Shonagon?
(a) The quality of gifts the man gives the woman.
(b) The elegance with which a man talks to the woman.
(c) The way a man smells.
(d) The way the man takes his leave of the woman.

2. In "Hateful Things," Sei Shonagon hates when a mosquito appears at what time?
(a) When one is getting ready to take a bath.
(b) When one is falling asleep.
(c) When one is getting ready to eat.
(d) When one is having sex.

3. When was Jose Luis Borges born?
(a) 1745 A.D.
(b) 1899 A.D.
(c) 1802 A.D.
(d) 1414 A.D.

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

5. Which person in Virginia Woolf's life died when Woolf was very young?
(a) Her father.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Her priest.
(d) Her brother.

Short Answer Questions

1. What inspired Ivan Turgenev's view of servants?

2. Robert Louis Stevenson is today best known for what type of writings?

3. How can the writings of H. L. Mencken BEST be described?

4. About how many essay collections and books did G. K. Chesterton write in his lifetime?

5. Who raised Charles Lamb?

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