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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, The American Scene-Page 479-585.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. M.F.K. Fisher's writing revolves around what subject?
(a) Sailing.
(b) Death.
(c) Food.
(d) Marriages.

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

3. What career did Montaigne have prior to writing?
(a) He was a teacher.
(b) He was a tanner.
(c) He was an attorney.
(d) He was a court clerk.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What other artistic skill did James Thurber have, in addition to writing?

2. Who wrote "An Essay on the Noble Science of Self-Justification?"

3. What title did Thurber give to his humorous autobiographical essay?

4. Which person in Virginia Woolf's life died when Woolf was very young?

5. What does Montaigne admit in "Of Books?"

(see the answer key)

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