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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What is the name of Marx's wife?
(a) Mary.
(b) Anna.
(c) Esther.
(d) Jenny.
2. What caused Hemingway to lose interest in his affair with Jane Mason?
(a) She tried to commit suicide and broke her back.
(b) She gained a lot of weight.
(c) She tried to convince him to sober up.
(d) She was unwilling to live in a 'menage a trois' with his wife.
3. How did Marx's daughter Laura die?
(a) Suicide.
(b) Throat cancer.
(c) Drowning.
(d) She died in childbirth.
4. What vocation did Rousseau's father have?
(a) He was born an aristocrat.
(b) He was a writer.
(c) He was a watchmaker.
(d) He was a politician.
5. How many children did Rousseau have with his wife?
(a) 8.
(b) 10.
(c) 2.
(d) 5.
6. What was Hemingway's nickname?
(a) Exciting Ernst.
(b) Papa Hemingway.
(c) Whisky Hemingway.
(d) Action man.
7. What is the name of the book that Marx spent most of his life working on?
(a) Revolution.
(b) The Philosphy of Marx.
(c) Communism.
(d) Capital.
8. What other Intellectual influenced Tolstoy in his youth?
(a) St. Augustine.
(b) Rousseau.
(c) Sarte.
(d) Shelley.
9. How did Marx support his family financially through most of his life?
(a) His writings were an immediate success and provided handsomely for the family.
(b) He borrowed money and received legacies from family.
(c) He worked as a railway clerk.
(d) He was supported by the government and received a salary for his work.
10. How did Hemingway feel about the media, including photo-calls and interviews?
(a) He actively pursued photo-calls and interviews and loved the media.
(b) He was incredibly introverted and avoided the media.
(c) He was indifferent to the media and would occasionally give interviews or photo-calls, but not frequently.
(d) He would give interviews, but would not allow his photo to be taken.
11. What was the name of Shelley's first wife?
(a) Wendy.
(b) Harriet.
(c) Mary.
(d) Claire.
12. What was Hemingway's first published work?
(a) For Whom the Bell Tolls.
(b) Three Stories and Ten Poems.
(c) The Sun Also Rises.
(d) The Old Man and the Sea.
13. Where was Rousseau born?
(a) Geneva.
(b) Paris.
(c) Provence.
(d) Zurich.
14. What happened to Rousseau's children?
(a) They all died at birth.
(b) He abandoned all of them at orphanages.
(c) They all grew up to be writers.
(d) They were adopted by Lord Boswell in England.
15. What was the nickname of Helen Demuth who spent her life working for the Marx family?
(a) Grava.
(b) Dogga.
(c) Heddy.
(d) Lenchen.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is the name of Ibsen's acknowledged son?
2. What ancient languages did Shelley attain great fluency in at Eton?
3. For which American newspaper did Marx work as a European correspondent for?
4. When Marx could not find an academic position after receiving his doctorate, what type of work did begin?
5. What lecture given by Ralph Waldo Emerson would be dubbed the American 'intellectual declaration of independence?'
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