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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 physical condition does Seneca discuss in a titular essay?
(a) Leprosy.
(b) Asthma.
(c) Rickets.
(d) Blindness.

2. Who wrote "Going Out for a Walk?"
(a) Max Beerbohm.
(b) G. K. Chesterton.
(c) Seneca.
(d) Ou-Yank Hsiu.

3. Plutarch was a priest of which temple?
(a) Delphi.
(b) Zeus.
(c) Athens.
(d) Apollo.

4. What nationality is Walter Benjamin?
(a) English.
(b) Italian.
(c) German.
(d) Belgian.

5. Who wrote "How to Start to Write?"
(a) F. Scott Fitzgerald.
(b) Carlos Fuentes.
(c) Ivan Turgenev.
(d) Walter Benjamin.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was the profession of Seneca the Younger's father?

3. Under what circumstances did Walter Benjamin die?

4. Who wrote "Once a Tramp, Always..."?

5. What is wrong with the child in "Of A Monstrous Child?"

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