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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 position did Sartre take after he was released from being a POW?
(a) He worked with the Vichy.
(b) He was a journalist.
(c) He found a teaching position.
(d) He worked as a mason.

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

3. What year did Gollancz break with the Communist party?
(a) 1945.
(b) 1938.
(c) 1961.
(d) 1953.

4. What was the name of Shelley's first wife?
(a) Mary.
(b) Claire.
(c) Harriet.
(d) Wendy.

5. How did Marx's daughter Laura die?
(a) She died in childbirth.
(b) Suicide.
(c) Drowning.
(d) Throat cancer.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the American philosophy graduate who became Russell's secretary?

2. What is the name of Rousseau's first novel?

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

4. What is the name of the mystery writer with whom Hellman had a long time affair?

5. What work did Wilson write when he was exploring Communist?

(see the answer key)

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