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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many children did Shelley have?
(a) 7.
(b) He had no children.
(c) 3.
(d) 1.

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

3. What was the name of Hemingway's first wife?
(a) Hadley Richardson.
(b) Katie Passos.
(c) Bryn Mawr.
(d) Martha Gellhorn.

4. What other Intellectual influenced Tolstoy in his youth?
(a) St. Augustine.
(b) Shelley.
(c) Rousseau.
(d) Sarte.

5. What 10,000 word essay did Shelley write in 1821 as a statement of social purpose?
(a) A Defense of Poetry.
(b) Ode to Poetry.
(c) The Revolt of Islam.
(d) Ode to the Tyrant.

6. What is the name of Marx's wife?
(a) Jenny.
(b) Anna.
(c) Esther.
(d) Mary.

7. Who did Tolstoy correspond with frequently in his old age, offering his opinions on every subject?
(a) The pope.
(b) Charles Dickens.
(c) Heads of state.
(d) Many serfs from his childhood home.

8. What ancient languages did Shelley attain great fluency in at Eton?
(a) Hebrew and Sanskrit.
(b) Greek and Hebrew.
(c) Latin and Egyptian.
(d) Latin and Greek.

9. What type of vocation did Marx's family (on both sides) participate in?
(a) They were farmers.
(b) They were factory workers from the proletariat class.
(c) They were aristocrats.
(d) They were Talmudic scholars.

10. What religion did Ibsen follow?
(a) He was an atheist.
(b) He was Catholic.
(c) He was Protestant.
(d) He was Jewish.

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

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

13. What was Ibsen's last statement?
(a) On the contrary.
(b) I will sleep peacefully.
(c) I have conquered.
(d) No thank you.

14. What lecture given by Ralph Waldo Emerson would be dubbed the American 'intellectual declaration of independence?'
(a) The American Scholar.
(b) Nature.
(c) The Times.
(d) Human Life.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Shelley's nickname at school?

2. What was Hemingway's nickname?

3. What is the name of Ibsen's wife?

4. What was the name of the estate that Tolstoy inherited from his mother?

5. What young woman was a laundress and agreed to become Rousseau's mistress on a permanent basis?

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