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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9, Jean-Paul Sartre: 'A Little Ball of Fur and Ink'.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Ibsen's first literary success?
(a) The Pretenders.
(b) A Doll's House.
(c) The Wild Duck.
(d) Hedda Gabler.

2. What was the name of Shelley's first wife?
(a) Wendy.
(b) Mary.
(c) Claire.
(d) Harriet.

3. What was the name of Hemingway's third wife?
(a) Hadley Richardson.
(b) Mary Welsh.
(c) Martha Gellhorn.
(d) Pauline Pfeiffer.

4. Why did Ibsen claim he liked to be around young women?
(a) They were muses for his writing.
(b) He was attracted sexually to young girls.
(c) He liked to have them about as servants to take care of him.
(d) He liked to pretend they were his daughters.

5. What mistress of Shelley's would live to be over eighty and inspire Henry James's story, The Aspern Papers?
(a) Claire Clairmont.
(b) Beth Owen.
(c) Mary Hoppner.
(d) Elena Goodwin.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which contemporary of Rousseau's wrote an attack on him called Le Sentiment des Citoyens?

2. What was Hemingway's nickname?

3. Where did Russell believe all of the answers to the riddles of the universe could be found?

4. What lecture given by Ralph Waldo Emerson would be dubbed the American 'intellectual declaration of independence?'

5. What did Brecht request to have done with his remains upon his death?

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