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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, Other Cultures, Other Continents.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Montaigne have in common with Saint Augustine?
(a) They were both deeply religious men.
(b) They both wrote books about themselves.
(c) They both wrote books about death.
(d) They both wrote books about nature.

3. Who wrote "He and I"?
(a) Natalia Ginzburg.
(b) Samuel Johnson.
(c) Plutarch.
(d) Richard Steele.

4. What nickname is given to Max Beerbohm?
(a) The Late Great Captain Max.
(b) The Incomparable Max.
(c) Max Beerfest.
(d) Maximum Writer.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What term best describes the type of literature written by Virginia Woolf?

2. What is unusual about Montaigne's first book, as opposed to any books thereafter?

3. Beyond the Monstrous Child, who else is discussed in "Of a Monstrous Child?"

4. From his second book on, what subject did Montaigne promise to pursue?

5. What did Kenko become in 1324?

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