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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. How many pregnancies did Tolstoy's wife have?
(a) 8.
(b) 10.
(c) 7.
(d) 12.
2. When Marx could not find an academic position after receiving his doctorate, what type of work did begin?
(a) He became a factory foreman.
(b) He became a librarian.
(c) He became a journalist.
(d) He because a privat tutor.
3. What caused Hemingway to lose interest in his affair with Jane Mason?
(a) She tried to commit suicide and broke her back.
(b) She tried to convince him to sober up.
(c) She was unwilling to live in a 'menage a trois' with his wife.
(d) She gained a lot of weight.
4. How did Rousseau first become known?
(a) He was elected as mayor of his city.
(b) He published a novel.
(c) He was distinguished as a soldier.
(d) He won an essay competition.
5. Which of the following is not a play penned by Ibsen?
(a) Lady Ingar of Ostraat.
(b) St. John's Night.
(c) The Priest.
(d) The Warrior's Barrow.
6. What ancient languages did Shelley attain great fluency in at Eton?
(a) Latin and Greek.
(b) Greek and Hebrew.
(c) Latin and Egyptian.
(d) Hebrew and Sanskrit.
7. For which American newspaper did Marx work as a European correspondent for?
(a) The Washington Post.
(b) The New York Daily Tribune.
(c) The Guardian.
(d) The New York Times.
8. What movement did Ralph Waldo Emerson found?
(a) New Nationalism.
(b) Enviornmentalism.
(c) Transcendentalism.
(d) Naturalism.
9. Where was Hemingway's home Finca Vigia?
(a) In Madrid Spain.
(b) In Cuba.
(c) On the island of Crete.
(d) In Flordia.
10. 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.
11. How many children did Rousseau have with his wife?
(a) 8.
(b) 2.
(c) 5.
(d) 10.
12. Which of the following armies did Tolstoy not fight during his tenure with the Russian army?
(a) Turks.
(b) British.
(c) Italians.
(d) French.
13. What was the name of Hemingway's third wife?
(a) Martha Gellhorn.
(b) Pauline Pfeiffer.
(c) Hadley Richardson.
(d) Mary Welsh.
14. What is the name of the book that Marx spent most of his life working on?
(a) Revolution.
(b) Capital.
(c) The Philosphy of Marx.
(d) Communism.
15. How did Hemingway interact with his fellow writers?
(a) He mentored many writers and took pains to help other develop their writing voice.
(b) He was close friends with many writers and corresponded with them frequently.
(c) He bitterly quarreled with all of them except Ezra Pound.
(d) He was indifferent towards other writers and did not have much interaction with them.
Short Answer Questions
1. Which contemporary of Rousseau's wrote an attack on him called Le Sentiment des Citoyens?
2. What occupation did Hemingway serve latter part of the Great War?
3. What was the name of Tolstoy's wife?
4. What year did Tolstoy die?
5. How did Marx support his family financially through most of his life?
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