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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many siblings did Ibsen have?
(a) He was an only child.
(b) 1.
(c) 2.
(d) 4.

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

3. Where is Rousseau buried?
(a) Verdunne.
(b) Pere Lachaise Cemetery.
(c) Montmartre.
(d) Ile des Peupliers.

4. What University did Marx receive his doctorate from?
(a) Sorbonne University.
(b) Berlin University.
(c) Oxford University.
(d) Bonn University.

5. Which of the following armies did Tolstoy not fight during his tenure with the Russian army?
(a) Italians.
(b) French.
(c) Turks.
(d) British.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Hemingway die?

2. For which American newspaper did Marx work as a European correspondent for?

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

4. Who was the first great nineteenth century American intellectual?

5. What was the name of Tolstoy's youngest daughter that revered him as his disciple?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why could it be argued that Karl Marx is the intellectual who has had the most impact on people?

2. What duty did Percy Bysshe Shelley believe that the enlightened man had to society?

3. Describe Rousseau's family life in his youth.

4. What addiction did Hemingway suffer from most of his life?

5. What personal hygiene habits did Hemingway have?

6. How did Marx believe that Socialism would come about?

7. What arrangement did Shelley attempt to make with his women counterparts, that never worked?

8. What action did Rousseau take after his second book prompted book burning and resulted in a warrant for his arrest in France?

9. What type of relationship did Marx have with the working class?

10. Following his death, how did scholars like Eliot, Hugo, Flaubert, Tolstoy, Kant and Shelley regard Rousseau?

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