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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9, Jean-Paul Sartre: 'A Little Ball of Fur and Ink'.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What young woman was a laundress and agreed to become Rousseau's mistress on a permanent basis?
(a) Joan MacDonald.
(b) Therese Levasseur.
(c) Madame d'Epinay.
(d) Madame Melchior.

3. Who did Brecht leave rights to his works to in his will?
(a) He left half of his oeuvre to the Communist Party and half to his wife.
(b) He left everything to his wife.
(c) He left different works to four women.
(d) He left his estate to his illegimate children and left out his wife.

4. What year was Tolstoy born?
(a) 1828.
(b) 1894.
(c) 1812.
(d) 1903.

5. Where did Russell believe all of the answers to the riddles of the universe could be found?
(a) In the human mind.
(b) He believed that most things could not be solved or understood.
(c) In the Bible.
(d) In observing nature.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was the name of Hemingway's fourth wife?

3. How did Marx support his family financially through most of his life?

4. How many siblings did Sartre have?

5. What occupation did Hemingway serve latter part of the Great War?

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