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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 is Montaigne's general view of humanity?
(a) Humans are vain and shameful.
(b) Humans are courageous and bold.
(c) Humans are noble and wise.
(d) Humans are murderous animals.

2. What illness did Virginia Woolf have to deal with at several times in her life?
(a) Scarlet Fever.
(b) Impetigo.
(c) Paranoid Schizophrenia.
(d) Depression.

3. About how many essay collections and books did G. K. Chesterton write in his lifetime?
(a) Two-hundred.
(b) Twenty.
(c) Ninety.
(d) Three.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What event starts the essay, "On Running After One's Hat?"

2. Why did William Hazlitt decide to abandon painting for poetry?

3. What attitude does Seneca have toward slaves in "Slaves?"

4. Who wrote "The Ring of Time?"

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

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