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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. Why prompted Montaigne to retire from his career to pursue writing?
(a) The death of his best friend.
(b) The death of his wife.
(c) His own bankruptcy.
(d) The birth of his first child.

2. Who wrote "The Lantern-Bearers"?
(a) Robert Louis Stevenson.
(b) G. K. Chesterton.
(c) Charles Lamb.
(d) Virginia Woolf.

3. What is the author's opinion of public executions in "The Execution of Tropmann?"
(a) Public executions should be ended.
(b) Public executions are thrilling.
(c) Public executions are tools of the class system.
(d) Public executions are necessary for law and order.

4. Who is Hsun addressing in his essay "Death?"
(a) The emperor of China.
(b) His family.
(c) Death himself.
(d) America.

5. M.F.K. Fisher's writing revolves around what subject?
(a) Food.
(b) Death.
(c) Sailing.
(d) Marriages.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote "On the Pleasure of Hating"?

2. Who wrote "How to Start to Write?"

3. Abraham Cowley's style is said to reflect what type of person?

4. When was Jose Luis Borges born?

5. Who wrote "An Essay on the Noble Science of Self-Justification?"

(see the answer key)

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