View a FREE sample

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 title did Thurber give to his humorous autobiographical essay?
(a) The Secret Life of James Thurber.
(b) Autobiography of a Biographist.
(c) James Thurber: Confidential.
(d) James Thurber, I Hardly Knew You.

2. Who wrote "An Hour or Two Sacred to Sorrow?"
(a) Maria Edgeworth.
(b) Richard Steele.
(c) Abraham Cowley.
(d) Joseph Addison.

3. 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 had both male and female sexual organs.
(c) The child was born with three eyes.
(d) The child was born badly deformed.

4. Who wrote "Hashis in Marseilles"?
(a) Michel de Montaigne.
(b) Henry David Thoreau.
(c) Maria Edgeworth.
(d) Walter Benjamin.

5. Who wrote "An Essay on the Noble Science of Self-Justification?"
(a) Maria Edgeworth.
(b) Seneca.
(c) Sei Shonagon.
(d) Charles Lamb.

Short Answer Questions

1. What reasoning does Plutarch offer in "Consolation to His Wife?"

2. How does Lu Hsun's work create trouble for him?

3. Which famous author is mentioned in the essay "Once a Tramp, Always...?"

4. Which of the following subjects is NOT discussed in Montaigne's "On Some Verses..." essay?

5. At which university did Abraham Cowley study?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 282 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample