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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, Tolstoy: God's Elder Brother.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Ibsen pay for his university education?
(a) He worked as a grammar tutor.
(b) By waiting tables.
(c) He worked at the fish docks.
(d) By writing plays.

2. What University did Marx receive his doctorate from?
(a) Sorbonne University.
(b) Bonn University.
(c) Oxford University.
(d) Berlin University.

3. Where was Rousseau born?
(a) Provence.
(b) Zurich.
(c) Geneva.
(d) Paris.

4. What is the name of the person, whom Ibsen based his character of Nora from A Doll's House on?
(a) Kirste Holst.
(b) Laura Kieler.
(c) Hilde Wangel.
(d) Miriam White.

5. What was Shelley's nickname at school?
(a) Scythrop.
(b) Baron Secrecy.
(c) The Eton atheist.
(d) The Poet Prophet.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many siblings did Ibsen have?

2. What is the name of the school mistress who loaned Shelley 100 pounds (her life savings), that was never repaid.

3. How many children did Rousseau have with his wife?

4. What work did Rousseau write that was autobiographical?

5. What was Ibsen's last statement?

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