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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 political party did Sartre decide to back for four years, beginning in 1952?
(a) The French National Party.
(b) The Communist Party.
(c) The New Socialist Party.
(d) The Nazi's.

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

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

4. What year was Hemingway born?
(a) 1887.
(b) 1918.
(c) 1899.
(d) 1903.

5. How was Brecht's work received in the United States?
(a) Brecht never attempted to promote his work in America.
(b) The government provided him with a small stipend.
(c) Hollywood embraced his style.
(d) He was not accepted.

Short Answer Questions

1. What venture did Gollancz start to counter the unwillingness of booksellers to stock ultra-left propaganda?

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

3. Where did Sartre do most of his writing?

4. How did Hemingway regard organized religion?

5. What was Ibsen's first literary success?

(see the answer key)

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