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

2. What was Brecht's first successful play?
(a) The Mother.
(b) Spartakus.
(c) Triumph and Sadness.
(d) The Slave.

3. What award did Brecht win in 1922 for being the best young dramatist.
(a) The Kleist Prize.
(b) The Nobel Prize for literature.
(c) The Pulitzer.
(d) The Quill.

4. What country was Ibsen born in?
(a) Sweden.
(b) Germany.
(c) Switzerland.
(d) Norway.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is not a play penned by Ibsen?

2. What year did Brecht die?

3. How did Ibsen pay for his university education?

4. What religion did Ibsen follow?

5. What subject did Gollancz teach at Repton?

(see the answer key)

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