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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, The Deep Waters of Ernest Hemingway, pgs. 138-155.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Marx could not find an academic position after receiving his doctorate, what type of work did begin?
(a) He because a privat tutor.
(b) He became a librarian.
(c) He became a factory foreman.
(d) He became a journalist.

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

3. What ancient languages did Shelley attain great fluency in at Eton?
(a) Latin and Greek.
(b) Hebrew and Sanskrit.
(c) Greek and Hebrew.
(d) Latin and Egyptian.

4. Who did Tolstoy correspond with frequently in his old age, offering his opinions on every subject?
(a) Many serfs from his childhood home.
(b) The pope.
(c) Charles Dickens.
(d) Heads of state.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Hemingway's nickname?

2. How many siblings did Ibsen have?

3. Which benefactress of Rousseau died of malnutrition after he refused to help her in her old age?

4. For which American newspaper did Marx work as a European correspondent for?

5. Who was the first great nineteenth century American intellectual?

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