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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11, The Troubled Conscience of Victor Gollancz.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many pregnancies did Tolstoy's wife have?
(a) 10.
(b) 12.
(c) 8.
(d) 7.

2. What was the name of Sartre's first philosophical novel published in 1938?
(a) Liberte.
(b) La Nausee.
(c) Comoedia.
(d) War.

3. What caused Hemingway to lose interest in his affair with Jane Mason?
(a) She tried to commit suicide and broke her back.
(b) She gained a lot of weight.
(c) She was unwilling to live in a 'menage a trois' with his wife.
(d) She tried to convince him to sober up.

4. How many books did he author?
(a) 68.
(b) 108.
(c) 14.
(d) 4.

5. What is the name of the school mistress who loaned Shelley 100 pounds (her life savings), that was never repaid.
(a) Elizabeth Hitchener.
(b) Claire Clairmont.
(c) Harriet Gogg.
(d) Fanny Imlay.

Short Answer Questions

1. What occupation did Wilson's father hold?

2. What opera had Gollancz seen forty-seven times before the age of twenty-one?

3. After Gollancz broke with the Communist, which party did he begin to support?

4. How did Ibsen feel about dogs?

5. What was the name of Hemingway's favorite sister?

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