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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, The American Scene: Page 586-770.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What political party did Abraham Cowley support?
(a) Tories.
(b) Liberals.
(c) Royalists.
(d) Whigs.
2. What physical condition does Seneca discuss in a titular essay?
(a) Rickets.
(b) Blindness.
(c) Leprosy.
(d) Asthma.
3. Who wrote "Do He Have Your Number, Mr. Jeffrey?"
(a) Gayle Pemberton.
(b) Jorge Luis Borges.
(c) Wole Soyinka.
(d) E. B. White.
4. What was the profession of Seneca the Younger's father?
(a) Moneychanger.
(b) Writer.
(c) General.
(d) Gladiator.
5. Beyond essays, Samuel Johnson is famous for which text?
(a) A translation of the writings of Julius Caesar.
(b) An English dictionary.
(c) "The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere."
(d) The King James version of the Bible.
Short Answer Questions
1. When was Virginia Woolf born?
2. Beyond the Monstrous Child, who else is discussed in "Of a Monstrous Child?"
3. On what subject is Sei Shonagon particularly frank?
4. What occupation did Lu Hsun abandon to become a writer?
5. When was Seneca the Younger born?
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