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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13, pgs. 324 - 342.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the name of Hemingway's favorite sister?
(a) Ursula.
(b) Dorthy.
(c) Penelope.
(d) Ernesta.

2. Why did Waugh dislike his contemporary, Cyril Connolly?
(a) Connolly would not take a political position.
(b) Connolly politicized himself.
(c) Connolly was a superior writer and Waugh was jealous.
(d) Connolly vacilated back and forth between different political views.

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

4. How did Ibsen pay for his university education?
(a) By waiting tables.
(b) He worked as a grammar tutor.
(c) By writing plays.
(d) He worked at the fish docks.

5. What political approach did Hemingway take in his perspective of the Spanish Civil War?
(a) He wrote from the Communist Party line.
(b) He wrote with a republican agenda.
(c) He wrote with an emphasis on Capitalism.
(d) He supported the Fascist perspective.

Short Answer Questions

1. What position did Sartre take after he was released from being a POW?

2. What was Ibsen's first literary success?

3. What was the name of the progressive school that Russell set up?

4. What was the name of Gollancz'a wife?

5. What year was Hemingway born?

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