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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 wife.
(b) His own bankruptcy.
(c) The birth of his first child.
(d) The death of his best friend.

2. What subject chiefly interests George Orwell?
(a) Unexplained phenomenon.
(b) Love.
(c) America.
(d) Politics.

3. Abraham Cowley's style is said to reflect what type of person?
(a) The aristocrat.
(b) The lawyer.
(c) The soldier.
(d) The common man.

4. Who wrote "The Courage of Turtles?"
(a) Edward Hoagland.
(b) E. B. White.
(c) George Orwell.
(d) Abraham Cowley.

5. Where is Plutarch traveling when he writes "Consolation to His Wife?"
(a) North Africa.
(b) Germany.
(c) Tanagra.
(d) Gaul.

Short Answer Questions

1. On what subject is Sei Shonagon particularly frank?

2. According to Montaigne, what is the source of the difference between men and women?

3. Who wrote "Nicolini and the Lions?"

4. In addition to a personal essayist, what kind of essayist is Samuel Johnson.

5. What is unusual about the essay "Once a Tramp, Always...?"

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