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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 year did Brecht die?
(a) 1962.
(b) 1959.
(c) 1948.
(d) 1954.

2. What was the name of Hellman's play that dealt with strikes and was a disaster?
(a) Days to Come.
(b) Circa.
(c) The LIttle Foxes.
(d) Largo.

3. What was the name of the intellectual who Johnson claimed attempted to legitimize personal violence?
(a) Cyril Connoly.
(b) Norman Mailer.
(c) Evelyn Waugh.
(d) George Orwell.

4. What was the name of Sartre's first philosophical novel published in 1938?
(a) Comoedia.
(b) War.
(c) Liberte.
(d) La Nausee.

5. Which of the following was not a title of a volume of Hellman's autobiography?
(a) Pentimento.
(b) An Unfinished Woman.
(c) Scoundrel Time.
(d) A Spark of Life.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which political party did Bertolt Brecht faithfully serve?

2. What type of contact did Hellman have with the workers?

3. How did Ibsen pay for his university education?

4. What opera had Gollancz seen forty-seven times before the age of twenty-one?

5. Why did Hellman owe almost two hundred thousand dollars to the government in 1952?

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