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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. How many wives did Wilson have?

2. What color was Wilson's hair?

3. What position did Sartre have during the war?

4. How did Waugh describe society?

5. How did Russell feel about war?

Short Essay Questions

1. What type of relationship did Wilson have with other writers?

2. What made Sartre famous in 1944?

3. Why does Johnson describe Russell as being detached from physical reality?

4. Describe Jean-Paul Sartre's appearance.

5. What political views did Wilson adopt during the Great Depression?

6. Why does Johnson believe that Gollancz is an important intellectual if he did not give birth to a salient idea himself?

7. How does Johnson describe Wilson's writings?

8. Why did Bertrand Russell write so much?

9. How did Hellman view her father?

10. Briefly describe the life of Dashiell Hammett, Hellman's long time lover.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Is there an overarching moral to Intellectual, and if so, what is it and how does Johnson establish this moral?

Essay Topic 2

Intellectuals suggests that Ibsen addressed social conventions and changed the way society viewed personal freedoms. What social conventions did Ibsen draw attention to, and how did his view of personal freedom affect society and other intellectuals mentioned in the book?

Essay Topic 3

Define the philosophy of existentialism and how it influenced society, both in the time of Jena-Paul Sartre and today.

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