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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What vices appealed to Tolstoy the most?
(a) Lying and forging.
(b) Women and gambling.
(c) Drugs and alcohol.
(d) Drinking and hunting.

2. How many children did Shelley have?
(a) 7.
(b) 1.
(c) 3.
(d) He had no children.

3. What 10,000 word essay did Shelley write in 1821 as a statement of social purpose?
(a) Ode to Poetry.
(b) A Defense of Poetry.
(c) The Revolt of Islam.
(d) Ode to the Tyrant.

4. What year did Tolstoy die?
(a) 1922.
(b) 1867.
(c) 1899.
(d) 1910.

5. What was the name of the US Ambassador that gave him a job to look out for German U-boats?
(a) Spruille braden.
(b) Robert Jordan.
(c) Don Passos.
(d) Art Duran.

6. What was the name of Tolstoy's youngest daughter that revered him as his disciple?
(a) Masha.
(b) Tanya.
(c) Sonya.
(d) Alexandra.

7. Where was Hemingway's home Finca Vigia?
(a) On the island of Crete.
(b) In Madrid Spain.
(c) In Flordia.
(d) In Cuba.

8. What occupation did Hemingway begin his career with in 1921?
(a) He worked as a librarian.
(b) He was a grammar teacher.
(c) He immediately became a novelist.
(d) He became a journalist.

9. How did Shelley die?
(a) He suffered a heart attack.
(b) He overdosed on opium.
(c) He drowned.
(d) He was shot.

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

11. What poem did Shelley dedicate to his first wife?
(a) Horrid Mysteries.
(b) The Cenci.
(c) Queen Mab.
(d) The Bride of Abydos.

12. Who transcribed Tolstoy's novels for him?
(a) His friend Turgenev.
(b) His wife.
(c) His son Sergei.
(d) He hired a different secretary for each novel.

13. How did Marx support his family financially through most of his life?
(a) His writings were an immediate success and provided handsomely for the family.
(b) He worked as a railway clerk.
(c) He borrowed money and received legacies from family.
(d) He was supported by the government and received a salary for his work.

14. What was Hemingway's first published work?
(a) The Old Man and the Sea.
(b) The Sun Also Rises.
(c) Three Stories and Ten Poems.
(d) For Whom the Bell Tolls.

15. What year was Hemingway born?
(a) 1918.
(b) 1887.
(c) 1899.
(d) 1903.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Shelley's nickname at school?

2. Who would receive Shelley's title of baronet?

3. What country was Ibsen born in?

4. What mistress of Shelley's would live to be over eighty and inspire Henry James's story, The Aspern Papers?

5. How many pregnancies did Tolstoy's wife have?

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