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

2. What did Brecht request to have done with his remains upon his death?
(a) He wanted to be buried in a steel coffin.
(b) He wanted to be cremated.
(c) He wanted to be buried at sea.
(d) He wanted to be interred in an above ground marble masoleum.

3. What was the name of Brecht's wife?
(a) Isot Kilian.
(b) Kathe Rulicke.
(c) Helene Weigel.
(d) Ruth Berlau.

4. What opera had Gollancz seen forty-seven times before the age of twenty-one?
(a) Aida.
(b) Faust.
(c) La Boheme.
(d) Turnadot.

5. Who was the first great nineteenth century American intellectual?
(a) Mark Twain.
(b) Ralph Waldo Emerson.
(c) Nathanial Hawthorne.
(d) Gertrude Stein.

Short Answer Questions

1. What vices appealed to Tolstoy the most?

2. Which of the following armies did Tolstoy not fight during his tenure with the Russian army?

3. Who opened Gollancz'a papers for inspection?

4. What was Hemingway's first published work?

5. What was the name of the American philosophy graduate who became Russell's secretary?

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