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

2. How did Hemingway interact with his fellow writers?
(a) He was close friends with many writers and corresponded with them frequently.
(b) He mentored many writers and took pains to help other develop their writing voice.
(c) He was indifferent towards other writers and did not have much interaction with them.
(d) He bitterly quarreled with all of them except Ezra Pound.

3. What religion did Russell believe?
(a) He was an atheist.
(b) He was a Christian.
(c) He was Jewish.
(d) He became a Buddhist later in life.

4. What was the name of Sartre's longtime mistress?
(a) Emilie Pleiade.
(b) Gertrude Stein.
(c) Simone de Beauvois.
(d) Louise Malraux.

5. What other Intellectual influenced Tolstoy in his youth?
(a) Rousseau.
(b) St. Augustine.
(c) Shelley.
(d) Sarte.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Hemingway's first published work?

2. What was the name of Russell's fourth wife?

3. What was the name of Rousseau's dog?

4. What was the name of Hemingway's favorite sister?

5. Where is Rousseau buried?

(see the answer key)

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