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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. Why did William Hazlitt decide to abandon painting for poetry?
(a) He met a snobbish painter who disillusioned him.
(b) He met two famous poets.
(c) His father forbade him to practice painting.
(d) His wife died, and he suffered a mental breakdown.

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

3. What reasoning does Plutarch offer in "Consolation to His Wife?"
(a) There is no sense in mourning someone who was released quickly from their earthly prison.
(b) There is little sense in praying, as there are no gods.
(c) Memories are nearly as good as the real person.
(d) There is no sense in mourning such a bad person.

4. Which famous author does Michel de Montaigne rely upon for several quotations in the final essay in the volume?
(a) Aristotle.
(b) Cato the Elder.
(c) Seneca.
(d) Virgil.

5. Who wrote "The Death of the Moth?"
(a) Maria Edgeworth.
(b) Virginia Woolf.
(c) Kenko.
(d) Max Beerbohm.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Plutarch consoling his wife in "Consolation to His Wife?"

2. Who wrote "This Tool Is Life?"

3. How did Virginia Woolf die?

4. James Thurber is said to have inspired what, in American essay prose?

5. Under what circumstances did Walter Benjamin die?

(see the answer key)

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