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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 colorful phrase does Seneca provide as another way to describe asthma?
(a) Rehearsing death.
(b) Sucking wind.
(c) Speechless sweeps.
(d) Hellish hiccups.

2. What is wrong with the child in "Of A Monstrous Child?"
(a) The child is a criminal and menace to the town.
(b) The child was born badly deformed.
(c) The child had both male and female sexual organs.
(d) The child was born with three eyes.

3. What is Jose Luis Borges' attitude in "Blindness?"
(a) Despairing.
(b) Appreciative.
(c) Shocked.
(d) Outraged.

4. When was Maria Edgeworth born?
(a) 895 A.D.
(b) 1512 A.D.
(c) 1897 A.D.
(d) 1768 A.D.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What nationality is Walter Benjamin?

2. Who wrote "He and I"?

3. At what age did Montaigne begin writing?

4. What political party did Abraham Cowley support?

5. Which of the following is NOT a feature of Charles Lamb's writing?

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