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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13, Lies, Dammed Lies and Lillian Hellman.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What caused Hemingway to lose interest in his affair with Jane Mason?
(a) She tried to commit suicide and broke her back.
(b) She was unwilling to live in a 'menage a trois' with his wife.
(c) She gained a lot of weight.
(d) She tried to convince him to sober up.

2. What was the name of Hellman's play that dealt with strikes and was a disaster?
(a) Largo.
(b) Days to Come.
(c) Circa.
(d) The LIttle Foxes.

3. What vocation did Rousseau's father have?
(a) He was a watchmaker.
(b) He was a politician.
(c) He was a writer.
(d) He was born an aristocrat.

4. How did Wilson regard women?
(a) He adored and worshipped women.
(b) He saw women as incapable darlings.
(c) He was completely indifferent towards women and saw them only as objects.
(d) He was somewhat fearful of them.

5. What did Hellman use as inspiration for her book, Miss Lonelyhearts?
(a) Conversations she heard in the stairwell of her apartment.
(b) Guests' letters that she secretly opened.
(c) She stole the material from another writer.
(d) Information from the classifieds.

Short Answer Questions

1. What year was Hemingway born?

2. In what year did Marx write the Communist Manifesto?

3. What was the nickname of Helen Demuth who spent her life working for the Marx family?

4. What type of relationship did Hemingway have with his mother?

5. What was the name of Gollancz'a wife?

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