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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 young woman was a laundress and agreed to become Rousseau's mistress on a permanent basis?
(a) Madame d'Epinay.
(b) Madame Melchior.
(c) Therese Levasseur.
(d) Joan MacDonald.

2. What occupation did Hemingway's father hold?
(a) He was a physician.
(b) He was a literature professor.
(c) He was a farmer.
(d) He was a plumber.

3. What title did Russell hold?
(a) He was an Earl.
(b) He was a Lord in the House of Parliament.
(c) He was a Duke.
(d) He was a Baron.

4. What 10,000 word essay did Shelley write in 1821 as a statement of social purpose?
(a) The Revolt of Islam.
(b) A Defense of Poetry.
(c) Ode to Poetry.
(d) Ode to the Tyrant.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What enabled Wilson financially to travel to Russia?

2. What is the name of Rousseau's first novel?

3. In what year did Marx write the Communist Manifesto?

4. What movement did Ralph Waldo Emerson found?

5. How many children did Shelley have?

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