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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 lecture given by Ralph Waldo Emerson would be dubbed the American 'intellectual declaration of independence?'
(a) Human Life.
(b) Nature.
(c) The American Scholar.
(d) The Times.

2. What is the name of the person, whom Ibsen based his character of Nora from A Doll's House on?
(a) Miriam White.
(b) Kirste Holst.
(c) Hilde Wangel.
(d) Laura Kieler.

3. How did Hemingway die?
(a) He was in a plane accident.
(b) He died of natural causes.
(c) He drowned while deep sea fishing.
(d) He committed suicide.

4. What happened to Rousseau's children?
(a) He abandoned all of them at orphanages.
(b) They all grew up to be writers.
(c) They were adopted by Lord Boswell in England.
(d) They all died at birth.

5. How did Rousseau first become known?
(a) He was elected as mayor of his city.
(b) He won an essay competition.
(c) He published a novel.
(d) He was distinguished as a soldier.

Short Answer Questions

1. What color was Wilson's hair?

2. How did Ibsen feel about dogs?

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

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

5. What subject did Gollancz teach at Repton?

(see the answer key)

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