1. According to Prinsky's introduction, the number of principal great essayists in the Romantic era was or were: (a) one (b) two (c) three (d) four

2. According to Prinsky's introduction, Charles Lamb's life, overall, could be classified as: (a) monotonous (b) fluctuating (c) undemanding (d) rootless

3. According to Prinsky's introduction, Lamb was a: (a) family man (b) loner (c) business executive (d) Casanova

4. According to Prinsky's introduction, Lamb's style, like William Hazlitt's, makes use of many of which kind of sentences: (a) indicative (b) interrogative (c) imperative (d) exclamatory

5. Overall, the main number of parts of Lamb's essay are: (a) two (b) three (c) four (d) five

6. In par. 1 of the essay, Lamb humorously rejects the conventional definition of what concept: (a) time (b) nation (c) law (d) race

7. In par. 1 of the essay, Lamb asserts the superiority of: (a) borrowers (b) Celts (c) lenders (d) white men (e) Parthians

8. In par. 2 of the essay, Lamb implies that borrowers act according to the principles of: (a) the state of Rhode Island (b) agriculture (c) the Bible (d) Capitalism

9. In par. 2 of the essay, Lamb implies that borrowers, relative to the pronouns "mine" and "yours": (a) translates them into Latin (b) insists on them (c) analyzes their etymologies (d) blurs the distinction

10. In par. 2 of the essay, Lamb implies that borrowers act according to the principles of: (a) the Mongol hordes (b) the first church (c) ancient Greece (d) Stone Age people

11. In par. 3 of the essay, Lamb divides borrowers into how many main categories: (a) none (b) two (c) three (d) four

12. In par. 3 of the essay, Lamb alludes to the Bible how many times: (a) one (b) two (c) three (d) four

13. In the sentences "He applies . . . " and "He is the true . . ." in par. 3 of the essay, Lamb uses all the following figures of speech except which one: (a) understatement (b) allusion (c) personification (d) metaphor

14. [Note: see 13b/paragraph organization in SFHW6.] The function of par. 4 in the essay is: (a) comparison and contrast (b) analogy (c) cause and effect (d) illustration

15. As stated in par. 4 of the essay, being a spendthrift is a mark of: (a) stability (b) democracy (c) immorality (d) aristocracy

16. As implied in par. 5 of the essay, the borrowing of Ralph Bigod created many: (a) problems (b) associates (c) widows (d) imitators

17. One estimate, according to par. 5 of the essay, is that Bigod borrowed from how many persons in England: (a) several (b) dozens (c) hundreds (d) ten percent

18. In par. 6, Ralph Bigod gives a new meaning to the expression: (a) throwing money away (b) money to burn (c) money begets money (d) money can't buy you love

19. In par. 6, Lamb divides borrowers into how many categories: (a) none (b) two (c) three (d) four

20. In par. 6, an underlying explanation of unsuccessful borrowing would connect with the modern principle from psychology or sociology of: (a) rationalization (b) Oedipus complex (c) self-fulfilling prophecy (d) negative reinforcement (e) Freudian slip

21. In par. 7, when Lamb refers to "treasures . . . rather cased in leather covers than . . . iron coffers," he uses the figure of speech: (a) synecdoche (b) apostrophe [not the punctuation mark] (c) simile (d) personification

22. In par. 7, when Lamb refers to "treasures . . . rather cased in leather covers," he refers to: (a) paper currency (b) explorers (c) aviators (d) books

23. In par. 8, Lamb uses all the following figures of speech except which one: (a) simile (b) paradox (c) allusion (d) personification

24. In par. 8, Lamb indicates that Comberbatch's theory of borrowing depends on: (a) who more needs the item (b) who is more morally pure, borrower or lender (c) who can better use the item (d) who can better share the item

25. Par. 9, with regard to par. 8 and Comberbatch's theory: (a) belies it (b) is unrelated to it (c) illustrates it (d) further defines it

26. In par. 9, the predominant, repeated figure of speech is: (a) metaphor (b) personification (c) simile (d) apostrophe

27. In par. 10, Lamb shows Comberbatch as: (a) borrower (b) giver (c) both borrower and giver (d) neither borrower or giver

28. In par. 10, the orphans Lamb refers to are: (a) books borrowed from Lamb by Comberbatch (b) children of households made poor by Comberbatch's borrowing (c) books borrowed from someone other than Lamb by Comberbatch (d) children of the illiterate lower class in London

29. In par. 11, Lamb divides borrowers into how many categories: (a) none (b) two (c) three (d) four

30. In par. 11, Lamb analyzes about borrowers their: (a) same motivation (b) principal gender (c) differing motivations (d) level of education

31. In par. 12, Lamb refers to the fact that STC or Comberbatch: (a) has to get loans from banks because of his borrowing habit (b) asks for money to return what he borrows (c) often ruins the items that he borrows (d) writes valuable ideas in the books he borrows