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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following is not "a certain young novelists...liking" in "The Writer on Holiday"?
(a) Breakfast stouts.
(b) Lavender-honey.
(c) Pretty girls.
(d) Reblochon cheese.

2. Which of the following is not an object mentioned in "The 'Blue Blood" Cruise"?
(a) God-King.
(b) King-Object.
(c) God-People.
(d) No answers are correct.

3. What food is made with margarine in the advertisement referenced by the author in "Operation Margarine"?
(a) Chocolate cake.
(b) A mousse.
(c) Strawberry pie.
(d) Croissants.

4. According to the author in "Neither-Nor Criticism," which of the following isn't "heavy, defective words"?
(a) Militant.
(b) Nuclear.
(c) Catechism.
(d) Ideology.

5. What sort of wrestling does the author define as portraying the ongoing battle between good and evil in "The World of Wrestling"?
(a) British wrestling.
(b) American wrestling.
(c) French wrestling.
(d) Russian wrestling.

6. How is the following quote from "The Poor and the Proletariat" finished: "the proletarian is still the man who is ______"?
(a) Enraged.
(b) Abused.
(c) Hungry.
(d) Tired.

7. What is on Einstein's head in the photograph where he is lying down in on a bed, referred to in "The Brain of Einstein"?
(a) A hat.
(b) Flowers.
(c) A scarf.
(d) Electric wires.

8. Ultimately, what is the destiny of the writers in the magazine article mentioned in "Novels and Children"?
(a) What what is best for their children.
(b) Write for their children.
(c) Write what is natural.
(d) Produce children.

9. "Novels and Children" was written in response to an article in what magazine?
(a) Vogue.
(b) Newsweek.
(c) Elle.
(d) La Monde.

10. How old is the subject of the trial in "Dominici, or the Triumph of Literature"?
(a) Sixty.
(b) Eighty.
(c) Forty.
(d) Twenty.

11. What river is referenced in the first sentence of "The Writer on Holiday?"
(a) Congo.
(b) Thames.
(c) Mississippi.
(d) Amazon.

12. Which of the following is not a phrase used to describe Einstein or his brain in "The Brain of Einstein"?
(a) "World of robots."
(b) "Bed of thorns."
(c) "A true museum exhibit."
(d) "Superman."

13. "______ for Schelling." How is this quote from "The Brain of Einstein finished"?
(a) Water.
(b) Breath.
(c) Air.
(d) Oxygen.

14. What is the associated social status of the referenced actor in "The Poor and the Proletariat"?
(a) Working class and poor.
(b) Middle class.
(c) Poor.
(d) Working class.

15. The author says that writer he discusses in "The Nautilus and the Drunken Boat" creates a world that needs only what to exist?
(a) Man.
(b) Itself.
(c) Isolation.
(d) Ships.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which fictional children's character(s) is/are referred to in "The Poor and the Proletariat"?

2. What is the name of the international meeting on soap mentioned in "Soap Powders and Detergents"?

3. The author sees toys as doing what to children?

4. Which of the following is not something the author says the ship grows past being in "The Nautilus and the Drunken Boat"?

5. "One is gifted for jet-flying as others are ____." How is this quote from "The Jet-Man" finished?

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