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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 many drafts of War and Peace did Tolstoy write?
(a) 1.
(b) 7.
(c) 13.
(d) 2.

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

3. What is the name of the person, whom Ibsen based his character of Nora from A Doll's House on?
(a) Laura Kieler.
(b) Kirste Holst.
(c) Miriam White.
(d) Hilde Wangel.

4. Which benefactress of Rousseau died of malnutrition after he refused to help her in her old age?
(a) Madame de Warens.
(b) Mademoiselle Groton.
(c) Madame D'Epinary.
(d) Mademoiselle Lambercier.

5. What was Shelley's nickname at school?
(a) Baron Secrecy.
(b) The Poet Prophet.
(c) The Eton atheist.
(d) Scythrop.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Rousseau born?

2. Where is Rousseau buried?

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

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

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

(see the answer key)

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