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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the nickname of Helen Demuth who spent her life working for the Marx family?
(a) Lenchen.
(b) Grava.
(c) Dogga.
(d) Heddy.

2. What vocation did Rousseau's father have?
(a) He was a writer.
(b) He was a politician.
(c) He was born an aristocrat.
(d) He was a watchmaker.

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

4. What young woman was a laundress and agreed to become Rousseau's mistress on a permanent basis?
(a) Joan MacDonald.
(b) Madame Melchior.
(c) Therese Levasseur.
(d) Madame d'Epinay.

5. How many siblings did Ibsen have?
(a) He was an only child.
(b) 1.
(c) 2.
(d) 4.

6. What was Shelley's nickname at school?
(a) Baron Secrecy.
(b) The Poet Prophet.
(c) The Eton atheist.
(d) Scythrop.

7. What type of relationship did Hemingway have with his mother?
(a) He respected her, but they often quarreled.
(b) The had a mutual indifference towards each other.
(c) He hated her.
(d) He idolized her.

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

9. How did Marx support his family financially through most of his life?
(a) He borrowed money and received legacies from family.
(b) He was supported by the government and received a salary for his work.
(c) His writings were an immediate success and provided handsomely for the family.
(d) He worked as a railway clerk.

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

11. Where is Rousseau buried?
(a) Montmartre.
(b) Verdunne.
(c) Ile des Peupliers.
(d) Pere Lachaise Cemetery.

12. How many pregnancies did Tolstoy's wife have?
(a) 10.
(b) 8.
(c) 7.
(d) 12.

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

14. For which American newspaper did Marx work as a European correspondent for?
(a) The Washington Post.
(b) The New York Times.
(c) The New York Daily Tribune.
(d) The Guardian.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which benefactress of Rousseau died of malnutrition after he refused to help her in her old age?

2. What is the name of Rousseau's first novel?

3. What was Hemingway's nickname?

4. How did Marx's daughter Laura die?

5. What year did Tolstoy die?

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