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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Hemingway's first published work?
(a) The Sun Also Rises.
(b) Three Stories and Ten Poems.
(c) The Old Man and the Sea.
(d) For Whom the Bell Tolls.

2. What work did Rousseau write that was autobiographical?
(a) L'Essan.
(b) Emile.
(c) Caro.
(d) Confessions.

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

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

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

6. What year was Hemingway born?
(a) 1903.
(b) 1899.
(c) 1918.
(d) 1887.

7. 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 would give interviews, but would not allow his photo to be taken.
(c) He was indifferent to the media and would occasionally give interviews or photo-calls, but not frequently.
(d) He was incredibly introverted and avoided the media.

8. Who was the first great nineteenth century American intellectual?
(a) Nathanial Hawthorne.
(b) Gertrude Stein.
(c) Ralph Waldo Emerson.
(d) Mark Twain.

9. How did Rousseau first become known?
(a) He published a novel.
(b) He won an essay competition.
(c) He was elected as mayor of his city.
(d) He was distinguished as a soldier.

10. What University did Marx receive his doctorate from?
(a) Sorbonne University.
(b) Oxford University.
(c) Berlin University.
(d) Bonn University.

11. What vices appealed to Tolstoy the most?
(a) Drinking and hunting.
(b) Lying and forging.
(c) Women and gambling.
(d) Drugs and alcohol.

12. what was the name of Hemingway's second wife?
(a) Dorothy Smurthwaite.
(b) Hadley Richardson.
(c) Mary Welsh.
(d) Pauline Pfeiffer.

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

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

15. How did Hemingway die?
(a) He drowned while deep sea fishing.
(b) He died of natural causes.
(c) He was in a plane accident.
(d) He committed suicide.

Short Answer Questions

1. What mistress of Shelley's would live to be over eighty and inspire Henry James's story, The Aspern Papers?

2. What lecture given by Ralph Waldo Emerson would be dubbed the American 'intellectual declaration of independence?'

3. What occupation did Hemingway begin his career with in 1921?

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

5. What was the name of Shelley's first wife?

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