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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11, The Troubled Conscience of Victor Gollancz.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What venture did Gollancz start to counter the unwillingness of booksellers to stock ultra-left propaganda?
(a) The Left Book Club.
(b) The CP Serial.
(c) The Canterbury Monthly.
(d) The Daily Worker.

3. What was the nickname of Helen Demuth who spent her life working for the Marx family?
(a) Lenchen.
(b) Grava.
(c) Dogga.
(d) Heddy.

4. How many drafts of War and Peace did Tolstoy write?
(a) 2.
(b) 1.
(c) 13.
(d) 7.

5. In what year did Marx write the Communist Manifesto?
(a) 1855.
(b) 1862.
(c) 1873.
(d) 1848.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which benefactress of Rousseau died of malnutrition after he refused to help her in her old age?

2. What was the name of the American philosophy graduate who became Russell's secretary?

3. Where was Rousseau born?

4. How did Marx's daughter Laura die?

5. What novel did Shelley's wife Mary author?

(see the answer key)

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