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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 title did Thurber give to his humorous autobiographical essay?
(a) Autobiography of a Biographist.
(b) James Thurber, I Hardly Knew You.
(c) James Thurber: Confidential.
(d) The Secret Life of James Thurber.

2. Robert Louis Stevenson is today best known for what type of writings?
(a) Poems.
(b) Novels.
(c) Diary entries.
(d) Essays.

3. Who wrote "Some Memories of the Glorious Bird and an Earlier Self"?
(a) Gore Vidal.
(b) Richard Rodriguez.
(c) Scott Russell Sanders.
(d) Edward Hoagland.

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

5. Who wrote "My Confession?"
(a) Mary McCarthy.
(b) F. Scott Fitzgerald.
(c) Charles Lamb.
(d) James Baldwin.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote "Street Haunting?"

2. What event is related in "Notes of a Native Son?"

3. Who wrote "The Crack-Up"?

4. What does Montaigne have in common with Saint Augustine?

5. What is the author's opinion of public executions in "The Execution of Tropmann?"

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