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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, Tolstoy: God's Elder Brother.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of Rousseau's first novel?
(a) Pensees.
(b) Emile.
(c) La Nouvelle Histoire.
(d) La Nouvelle Heloise.

2. What poem did Shelley dedicate to his first wife?
(a) Horrid Mysteries.
(b) Queen Mab.
(c) The Cenci.
(d) The Bride of Abydos.

3. What type of vocation did Marx's family (on both sides) participate in?
(a) They were Talmudic scholars.
(b) They were aristocrats.
(c) They were farmers.
(d) They were factory workers from the proletariat class.

4. What novel did Shelley's wife Mary author?
(a) Northanger Abby.
(b) Pocession.
(c) Silas Marner.
(d) Frankenstein.

5. Who transcribed Tolstoy's novels for him?
(a) His wife.
(b) His friend Turgenev.
(c) He hired a different secretary for each novel.
(d) His son Sergei.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who would receive Shelley's title of baronet?

2. What was the name of the estate that Tolstoy inherited from his mother?

3. What is the name of the book that Marx spent most of his life working on?

4. What country was Ibsen born in?

5. What year was Tolstoy born?

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