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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. On average how many books did Sartre read every year?
(a) About 300.
(b) About 100.
(c) He read one per week, 52.
(d) He only read one, but studied it intensely.

2. What year did Russell die?
(a) 1970.
(b) 1951.
(c) 1980.
(d) 1942.

3. What was Hemingway's first published work?
(a) Three Stories and Ten Poems.
(b) For Whom the Bell Tolls.
(c) The Old Man and the Sea.
(d) The Sun Also Rises.

4. What is the name of Rousseau's first novel?
(a) Pensees.
(b) La Nouvelle Histoire.
(c) Emile.
(d) La Nouvelle Heloise.

5. What was Brecht's first Marxist work that was produced in 1930?
(a) Kaspar.
(b) Die Massanhme.
(c) Threepenny Opera.
(d) Erfolg.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which of the following is not a play penned by Ibsen?

3. Which of these was not written by Brecht?

4. What vocation did Rousseau's father have?

5. What was Ibsen's last statement?

(see the answer key)

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