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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 the partner, with whom Marx co-authored many of his works?
(a) Engels.
(b) Hegel.
(c) Proudhon.
(d) Kriege.

2. What work did Rousseau write that was autobiographical?
(a) L'Essan.
(b) Caro.
(c) Confessions.
(d) Emile.

3. What 10,000 word essay did Shelley write in 1821 as a statement of social purpose?
(a) Ode to Poetry.
(b) A Defense of Poetry.
(c) Ode to the Tyrant.
(d) The Revolt of Islam.

4. How many pregnancies did Tolstoy's wife have?
(a) 12.
(b) 8.
(c) 7.
(d) 10.

5. What vocation did Rousseau's father have?
(a) He was a politician.
(b) He was born an aristocrat.
(c) He was a writer.
(d) He was a watchmaker.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who transcribed Tolstoy's novels for him?

2. What mistress of Shelley's would live to be over eighty and inspire Henry James's story, The Aspern Papers?

3. How did Marx's daughter Laura die?

4. How many drafts of War and Peace did Tolstoy write?

5. How did Shelley die?

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