2. What illness did Virginia Woolf have to deal with at several times in her life?
(a) Scarlet Fever.
(b) Impetigo.
(c) Depression.
(d) Paranoid Schizophrenia.

3. Who wrote "Beside the Nore?"
(a) Hubert Butler.
(b) E.M. Cioran.
(c) Sei Shonagon.
(d) Seneca.

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

5. What is Jose Luis Borges' attitude in "Blindness?"
(a) Despairing.
(b) Shocked.
(c) Outraged.
(d) Appreciative.

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

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

8. When was Lu Hsun born?
(a) 1312 A.D.
(b) 340 B.C.
(c) 1881 A.D.
(d) 1775 A.D.

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

10. Which famous author is mentioned in the essay "Once a Tramp, Always...?"
(a) Chaucer.
(b) Mark Twain.
(c) Jonathan Swift.
(d) Toni Morrison.

11. Under what circumstances did Walter Benjamin die?
(a) He committed suicide.
(b) He fell off a building.
(c) He died of old age.
(d) He was shot by a soldier.

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

13. When was Jose Luis Borges born?
(a) 1899 A.D.
(b) 1745 A.D.
(c) 1802 A.D.
(d) 1414 A.D.

14. What term best describes the type of literature written by Virginia Woolf?
(a) Fables.
(b) Epic poetry.
(c) Nonfiction.
(d) Modern fiction.

15. What inspired Ivan Turgenev's view of servants?
(a) He was raised watching his mother abuse all of those around her.
(b) Turgenev's father trafficked in slaves.
(c) He was raised by a servant.
(d) His father was killed by a servant.