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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. How did Marx support his family financially through most of his life?
(a) His writings were an immediate success and provided handsomely for the family.
(b) He worked as a railway clerk.
(c) He was supported by the government and received a salary for his work.
(d) He borrowed money and received legacies from family.

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

3. Which of the following armies did Tolstoy not fight during his tenure with the Russian army?
(a) French.
(b) British.
(c) Turks.
(d) Italians.

4. What happened to Rousseau's children?
(a) He abandoned all of them at orphanages.
(b) They were adopted by Lord Boswell in England.
(c) They all grew up to be writers.
(d) They all died at birth.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What other Intellectual influenced Tolstoy in his youth?

2. What vocation did Rousseau's father have?

3. What ancient languages did Shelley attain great fluency in at Eton?

4. In what year did Marx write the Communist Manifesto?

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

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