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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the name of the school mistress who loaned Shelley 100 pounds (her life savings), that was never repaid.
(a) Fanny Imlay.
(b) Harriet Gogg.
(c) Elizabeth Hitchener.
(d) Claire Clairmont.

3. What is the name of Ibsen's acknowledged son?
(a) Sigurd.
(b) Soren.
(c) Christopher.
(d) Dean.

4. What happened to Rousseau's children?
(a) He abandoned all of them at orphanages.
(b) They were adopted by Lord Boswell in England.
(c) They all died at birth.
(d) They all grew up to be writers.

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

6. Who transcribed Tolstoy's novels for him?
(a) His son Sergei.
(b) His wife.
(c) He hired a different secretary for each novel.
(d) His friend Turgenev.

7. What year was Tolstoy born?
(a) 1812.
(b) 1903.
(c) 1894.
(d) 1828.

8. How did Marx's daughter Laura die?
(a) Throat cancer.
(b) She died in childbirth.
(c) Suicide.
(d) Drowning.

9. Which contemporary of Rousseau's wrote an attack on him called Le Sentiment des Citoyens?
(a) Diderot.
(b) Voltaire.
(c) Hume.
(d) Grimm.

10. What is the name of Ibsen's wife?
(a) Suzannah.
(b) Anna.
(c) Eliza.
(d) Mary.

11. What was the name of Rousseau's dog?
(a) Chien.
(b) Fido.
(c) Sultan.
(d) Petit.

12. What movement did Ralph Waldo Emerson found?
(a) New Nationalism.
(b) Enviornmentalism.
(c) Transcendentalism.
(d) Naturalism.

13. How did Hemingway regard organized religion?
(a) He saw it as a menace to human happiness.
(b) He believed in personal worship rather than organized religion.
(c) He identified Christianity with male honor.
(d) He had no opinion on religion.

14. What is the name of Marx's daughter, who became a mistress of Edward Aveling?
(a) Laura.
(b) Eleanor.
(c) Helen.
(d) Jenny.

15. What is the name of the person, whom Ibsen based his character of Nora from A Doll's House on?
(a) Hilde Wangel.
(b) Laura Kieler.
(c) Miriam White.
(d) Kirste Holst.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of Tolstoy's youngest daughter that revered him as his disciple?

2. What was the name of Hemingway's third wife?

3. What type of relationship did Hemingway have with his mother?

4. Who was the first great nineteenth century American intellectual?

5. What other Intellectual influenced Tolstoy in his youth?

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