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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, The Rise of the English Essay-Page 212-302.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the disposition of the eunuch Montaigne describes in "Of a Monstrous Child?"
(a) Happy and free.
(b) Cautious, and paranoid.
(c) Miserable and suicidal.
(d) Thoughtful, and wise.

2. What kind of family background did Montaigne come from?
(a) His father was rich, but his mother came from a poor family.
(b) Both his father and mother's families were well-off and prominent.
(c) His mother was rich, but his father came from a poor family.
(d) Montaigne came from a poor background.

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

4. Where did Maria Edgeworth get her nontraditional views from?
(a) Her father.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Her grandmother.
(d) Her Sunday School teacher.

5. Plutarch was a priest of which temple?
(a) Apollo.
(b) Athens.
(c) Zeus.
(d) Delphi.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following labels BEST describe the writings of Montaigne?

2. When was Virginia Woolf born?

3. Who wrote "The Death of the Moth?"

4. What is Cowley's message in his essay "Of Greatness"?

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

(see the answer key)

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