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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 caused Hemingway to lose interest in his affair with Jane Mason?
(a) She was unwilling to live in a 'menage a trois' with his wife.
(b) She tried to commit suicide and broke her back.
(c) She tried to convince him to sober up.
(d) She gained a lot of weight.

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

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

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

5. What year was Hellman born?
(a) 1911.
(b) 1905.
(c) 1899.
(d) 1910.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of Hemingway's fourth wife?

2. What was Hemingway's first published work?

3. What year did Wilson die?

4. What ancient languages did Shelley attain great fluency in at Eton?

5. What lecture given by Ralph Waldo Emerson would be dubbed the American 'intellectual declaration of independence?'

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