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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What work did Rousseau write that was autobiographical?

2. What year was Hemingway born?

3. Why did Ibsen claim he liked to be around young women?

4. When Marx could not find an academic position after receiving his doctorate, what type of work did begin?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What type of soldier was Tolstoy?

3. What are some similarities between Tolstoy and Rousseau?

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

5. What personal hygiene habits did Hemingway have?

6. Describe the typical arc of Rousseau's friendships.

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

8. Describe Ibsen's appearance.

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

10. How did Ibsen interact with women?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What was Johnson's definition of an intellectual? What was his criteria for one and how to the people mentioned in the book match with this criteria?

Essay Topic 2

According to Johnson, define a "man of letter's" and contrast this with Johnson's definition of an intellectual. What individuals in the book could be label man of letters and why?

Essay Topic 3

Johnson spend a lot of time discussing how each Intellectual saw himself, and how each defined their role in relation to mankind. Select two different Intellectuals compare and contrast using textual evidence the self image each had and what effect they hoped to achieve in the world.

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