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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 year was Bertrand Russell born?
(a) 1903.
(b) 1876.
(c) 1872.
(d) 1888.

2. What foreign country did Gollancz live in briefly while working for the Ministry of Food?
(a) Singapore.
(b) Japan.
(c) India.
(d) China.

3. How many wives did Wilson have?
(a) 2.
(b) 6.
(c) 4.
(d) 3.

4. What was Brecht's first successful play?
(a) Triumph and Sadness.
(b) The Mother.
(c) The Slave.
(d) Spartakus.

5. What is the name of Ibsen's wife?
(a) Suzannah.
(b) Anna.
(c) Mary.
(d) Eliza.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is not a play penned by Ibsen?

2. What is the name of Marx's wife?

3. What is the name of the partner, with whom Marx co-authored many of his works?

4. Who was the first great nineteenth century American intellectual?

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

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