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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 year did Brecht die?
(a) 1948.
(b) 1962.
(c) 1959.
(d) 1954.

2. How did Ibsen pay for his university education?
(a) He worked at the fish docks.
(b) By waiting tables.
(c) He worked as a grammar tutor.
(d) By writing plays.

3. What honor did Gollancz receive in 1945?
(a) The Golden Seal, a publishers award.
(b) The Nobel Prize.
(c) He was elected to parliament.
(d) A Knighthood.

4. What year did Gollancz break with the Communist party?
(a) 1953.
(b) 1961.
(c) 1945.
(d) 1938.

5. What was Brecht's first Marxist work that was produced in 1930?
(a) Threepenny Opera.
(b) Die Massanhme.
(c) Kaspar.
(d) Erfolg.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Ibsen's last statement?

2. Which political party did Bertolt Brecht faithfully serve?

3. How did Ibsen feel about dogs?

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

5. What was Ibsen's first literary success?

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