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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote "Going Out for a Walk?"
(a) Max Beerbohm.
(b) Seneca.
(c) Ou-Yank Hsiu.
(d) G. K. Chesterton.

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

3. Who is Hsun addressing in his essay "Death?"
(a) Death himself.
(b) The emperor of China.
(c) America.
(d) His family.

4. Which person in Virginia Woolf's life died when Woolf was very young?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Her father.
(c) Her priest.
(d) Her brother.

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

6. How does Lu Hsun's work create trouble for him?
(a) His work revealed money laundering schemes that led to his arrest.
(b) His work is criticized by the Communist government.
(c) His work caused him to be ridiculed by members of his home town.
(d) His work revealed that he had a mistress, causing his wife to leave him.

7. Before attempting personal essays, what kind of writer was Seymour Krim?
(a) Critic.
(b) Playwright.
(c) Copywriter.
(d) Newspaper reporter.

8. Who wrote "An Apology for Idlers?"
(a) Robert Louis Stevenson.
(b) George Orwell.
(c) Maria Edgeworth.
(d) Plutarch.

9. Who wrote "The Execution of Tropmann?"
(a) Hubert Butler.
(b) Ivan Turgenev.
(c) Carlos Fuentes.
(d) William Hazlitt.

10. Which is NOT one of the subjects written about by George Orwell?
(a) The Great Depression.
(b) The Spanish Civil War.
(c) The threat of fascism.
(d) The American Revolution.

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

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

13. When was Walter Benjamin Born?
(a) 1962 A.D.
(b) 1892 A.D.
(c) 1705 A.D.
(d) 1472 A.D.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What nationality is Walter Benjamin?

2. Who wrote "The Ring of Time?"

3. What is the subject of "Such, Such Were the Joys..."?

4. What occupation did Lu Hsun abandon to become a writer?

5. Who wrote "Once More to the Lake"?

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