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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 venture did Gollancz start to counter the unwillingness of booksellers to stock ultra-left propaganda?
(a) The Daily Worker.
(b) The CP Serial.
(c) The Left Book Club.
(d) The Canterbury Monthly.

2. What was Shelley's nickname at school?
(a) The Poet Prophet.
(b) The Eton atheist.
(c) Scythrop.
(d) Baron Secrecy.

3. How did Russell feel about war?
(a) We do not know his stance on war.
(b) He was indifferent to war and did not know much about current events.
(c) He detested war.
(d) He was a war enthusiast.

4. How did Ibsen feel about dogs?
(a) He was indifferent to animals in general.
(b) The barking of dogs gave him headaches.
(c) He adored dogs and had several as pets.
(d) He was deathly afraid of them.

5. How did Wilson's second wife die?
(a) She tripped on her heels and fractured her skull.
(b) She was hit by a car.
(c) She was accidentily poisioned by pesticide they used in their home.
(d) She had a heart attack.

Short Answer Questions

1. What about Orwell's lifestyle was unlike other intellectuals or writers?

2. What caused Hemingway to lose interest in his affair with Jane Mason?

3. What was the name of Tolstoy's wife?

4. Where is Rousseau buried?

5. What is the name of the book that Marx spent most of his life working on?

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