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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. How did Marx support his family financially through most of his life?
(a) He borrowed money and received legacies from family.
(b) He worked as a railway clerk.
(c) He was supported by the government and received a salary for his work.
(d) His writings were an immediate success and provided handsomely for the family.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What caused Hemingway to lose interest in his affair with Jane Mason?

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

3. What was the name of Rousseau's dog?

4. Who would receive Shelley's title of baronet?

5. What was Brecht's first Marxist work that was produced in 1930?

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