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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 shocking thing did Tynan collect from his boyhood?
(a) Personal letters he stole from complete strangers.
(b) Different types of knives
(c) Pornography.
(d) Samples of blood from girls he had kissed.

2. 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 convince him to sober up.
(c) She gained a lot of weight.
(d) She tried to commit suicide and broke her back.

3. What was the name of Hemingway's fourth wife?
(a) Hadley Richardson.
(b) Mary Welsh.
(c) Pauline Pfeiffer.
(d) Martha Gellhorn.

4. Which of the following armies did Tolstoy not fight during his tenure with the Russian army?
(a) Italians.
(b) Turks.
(c) French.
(d) British.

5. Who was the first great nineteenth century American intellectual?
(a) Mark Twain.
(b) Ralph Waldo Emerson.
(c) Nathanial Hawthorne.
(d) Gertrude Stein.

Short Answer Questions

1. What year was Bertrand Russell born?

2. What play did Hellman write in the 1960s that was a big success?

3. How did Marx's daughter Laura die?

4. How did Kenneth Tynan treat his mother?

5. When the Spanish Civil War broke out in 1936, what support did Orwell give to the republic?

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