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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. In Montaigne's "On Some Verses..." essay, what opinion does he express about the sexes?
(a) Men and women are essentially the same.
(b) Men are made for war, and women are made for love.
(c) Men are far superior to women in all intellectual areas.
(d) Men do not possess emotional excess, which is the chief flaw of women.

2. Who is the subject of Chapter 2 in the book?
(a) Mark Twain.
(b) Seneca.
(c) Kenko.
(d) Michel de Montaigne.

3. In addition to a personal essayist, what kind of essayist is Samuel Johnson.
(a) Moral essayist.
(b) Progressive essayist.
(c) Impersonal essayist.
(d) Anti-intellectual essayist.

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

5. Who wrote "On the Pleasure of Hating"?
(a) Michel de Montaigne.
(b) William Hazlitt.
(c) Sei Shonagon.
(d) Charles Lamb.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Plutarch traveling when he writes "Consolation to His Wife?"

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

3. How did Virginia Woolf die?

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

5. What illness did Virginia Woolf have to deal with at several times in her life?

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