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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. How can the writings of H. L. Mencken BEST be described?
(a) Somber.
(b) Centered on race issues.
(c) Centered on death.
(d) Irreverent.

2. Who wrote "Street Haunting?"
(a) Robert Louis Stevenson.
(b) Phillip Lopate.
(c) Virginia Woolf.
(d) Michel de Montaigne.

3. What is a typical Virginia Woolf focus in her essays?
(a) Poverty.
(b) Death.
(c) The bounty of nature.
(d) Joy.

4. What topic chiefly interests James Baldwin?
(a) The battle of the sexes.
(b) His childhood.
(c) Nature.
(d) Racism.

5. Who wrote "Leaving the Movie Theater?"
(a) Jose Luis Borges.
(b) Robert Louis Stevenson.
(c) Sara Suleri.
(d) Roland Barthes.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does the execution take place in "The Execution of Tropmann?"

2. What is Jose Luis Borges' attitude in "Blindness?"

3. To what character may many of Montaigne's writings may be considered similar to?

4. Who wrote "A Chapter on Ears?"

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

(see the answer key)

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