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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. How did Hemingway die?
(a) He was in a plane accident.
(b) He committed suicide.
(c) He drowned while deep sea fishing.
(d) He died of natural causes.

2. What poem did Shelley dedicate to his first wife?
(a) The Bride of Abydos.
(b) Horrid Mysteries.
(c) Queen Mab.
(d) The Cenci.

3. Who opened Gollancz'a papers for inspection?
(a) His daughter Livia.
(b) His brother, Archibald.
(c) His wife.
(d) Gollancz asked that his papers be made public in his will.

4. What year was Shelley born?
(a) 1792.
(b) 1799.
(c) 1811.
(d) 1763.

5. What position did Sartre have during the war?
(a) He was an ambulance driver.
(b) He was a regular foot soldier.
(c) He was a meteorologist.
(d) He was a cook for the POW camp.

Short Answer Questions

1. What lecture given by Ralph Waldo Emerson would be dubbed the American 'intellectual declaration of independence?'

2. What award did Brecht win in 1922 for being the best young dramatist.

3. What year did Hellman die?

4. What subject did Gollancz teach at Repton?

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

(see the answer key)

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