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

2. What was Ibsen's last statement?
(a) No thank you.
(b) I will sleep peacefully.
(c) On the contrary.
(d) I have conquered.

3. What is the name of the book that Marx spent most of his life working on?
(a) Capital.
(b) Revolution.
(c) The Philosphy of Marx.
(d) Communism.

4. How did Shelley die?
(a) He was shot.
(b) He drowned.
(c) He overdosed on opium.
(d) He suffered a heart attack.

5. Which contemporary of Rousseau's wrote an attack on him called Le Sentiment des Citoyens?
(a) Diderot.
(b) Grimm.
(c) Voltaire.
(d) Hume.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of Shelley's first wife?

2. What year was Tolstoy born?

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

4. How many children did Rousseau have with his wife?

5. What was the name of Tolstoy's wife?

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