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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Virginia Woolf die?
(a) She was shot by a jealous lover.
(b) Of old age.
(c) She drowned herself.
(d) She was run over by an automobile.

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

3. When was Virginia Woolf born?
(a) 1616 A. D.
(b) 1475 A. D.
(c) 1772 A. D.
(d) 1882 A. D.

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

5. Who wrote "Such, Such Were the Joys..."?
(a) George Orwell.
(b) William Hazlitt.
(c) Sei Shonagon.
(d) Richard Steele.

6. What did George Orwell renounce, along with his former life?
(a) The English legal system.
(b) Poetry.
(c) The Catholic church.
(d) The class system.

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

8. Who wrote "How to Start to Write?"
(a) Walter Benjamin.
(b) Ivan Turgenev.
(c) F. Scott Fitzgerald.
(d) Carlos Fuentes.

9. What might best describe the attitude of the author in "Such, Such Were the Joys..."?
(a) Thoughtful and optimistic.
(b) Depressed and suicidal.
(c) Angry and pessimistic.
(d) Joyous and spontaneous.

10. Who wrote "He and I"?
(a) Natalia Ginzburg.
(b) Samuel Johnson.
(c) Richard Steele.
(d) Plutarch.

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

12. What occupation did Lu Hsun abandon to become a writer?
(a) Court official.
(b) Farmer.
(c) Doctor.
(d) Merchant.

13. Who wrote "For My Brothers and Sisters in the Failure Business?"
(a) Seymour Krim.
(b) Joseph Addison.
(c) G. K. Chesterton.
(d) Gayle Pemberton.

14. About how many essay collections and books did G. K. Chesterton write in his lifetime?
(a) Twenty.
(b) Three.
(c) Ninety.
(d) Two-hundred.

15. Who wrote "Hashis in Marseilles"?
(a) Maria Edgeworth.
(b) Henry David Thoreau.
(c) Walter Benjamin.
(d) Michel de Montaigne.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which is NOT one of the subjects written about by George Orwell?

2. What is the "failure" spoken about in "For My Brothers and Sisters in the Failure Business?"

3. When was Jose Luis Borges born?

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

5. Who wrote "On Being an American?"

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