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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13, Lies, Dammed Lies and Lillian Hellman.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What lecture given by Ralph Waldo Emerson would be dubbed the American 'intellectual declaration of independence?'
(a) The Times.
(b) The American Scholar.
(c) Nature.
(d) Human Life.

2. What was the name of the US Ambassador that gave him a job to look out for German U-boats?
(a) Robert Jordan.
(b) Don Passos.
(c) Spruille braden.
(d) Art Duran.

3. What type of contact did Hellman have with the workers?
(a) Hellman had little contact with the workers.
(b) Hellman had two close friends from the worker class.
(c) Hellman came from a low-income family.
(d) Hellman minutely studied the workers and even lived with them for a year.

4. What was the nickname of Helen Demuth who spent her life working for the Marx family?
(a) Heddy.
(b) Dogga.
(c) Lenchen.
(d) Grava.

5. How tall was Sartre?
(a) Just under 6 feet tall.
(b) Average nondescript height.
(c) Very tall at 6 feet 5 inches.
(d) Just over 5 feet 2 inches.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Shelley die?

2. What religion did Russell believe?

3. What occupation did Hemingway begin his career with in 1921?

4. What year did Russell die?

5. What is the name of Marx's wife?

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