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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11, The Troubled Conscience of Victor Gollancz.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What venture did Gollancz start to counter the unwillingness of booksellers to stock ultra-left propaganda?
(a) The CP Serial.
(b) The Canterbury Monthly.
(c) The Left Book Club.
(d) The Daily Worker.

2. What was Ibsen's last statement?
(a) No thank you.
(b) I will sleep peacefully.
(c) On the contrary.
(d) I have conquered.

3. What is the name of Ibsen's wife?
(a) Suzannah.
(b) Eliza.
(c) Mary.
(d) Anna.

4. What was the name of the first publishing firm that Gollancz worked for?
(a) Gramercy.
(b) Benn Brothers.
(c) Schuster and Simon.
(d) Easton Press.

5. Who did Brecht leave rights to his works to in his will?
(a) He left different works to four women.
(b) He left his estate to his illegimate children and left out his wife.
(c) He left half of his oeuvre to the Communist Party and half to his wife.
(d) He left everything to his wife.

Short Answer Questions

1. What caused Brecht to leave Germany in 1933?

2. What was Ibsen's first literary success?

3. How was Brecht's work received in the United States?

4. After Gollancz broke with the Communist, which party did he begin to support?

5. What subject did Gollancz teach at Repton?

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