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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Ibsen's first literary success?
(a) The Wild Duck.
(b) A Doll's House.
(c) The Pretenders.
(d) Hedda Gabler.

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

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

4. What occupation did Hemingway's father hold?
(a) He was a literature professor.
(b) He was a farmer.
(c) He was a physician.
(d) He was a plumber.

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

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

7. Which of the following is not a play penned by Ibsen?
(a) The Priest.
(b) Lady Ingar of Ostraat.
(c) St. John's Night.
(d) The Warrior's Barrow.

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

9. Which benefactress of Rousseau died of malnutrition after he refused to help her in her old age?
(a) Mademoiselle Groton.
(b) Madame D'Epinary.
(c) Mademoiselle Lambercier.
(d) Madame de Warens.

10. What year was Tolstoy born?
(a) 1812.
(b) 1828.
(c) 1903.
(d) 1894.

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

12. What country was Ibsen born in?
(a) Norway.
(b) Germany.
(c) Sweden.
(d) Switzerland.

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

14. What is the name of the book that Marx spent most of his life working on?
(a) Communism.
(b) The Philosphy of Marx.
(c) Revolution.
(d) Capital.

15. What happened to Rousseau's children?
(a) They were adopted by Lord Boswell in England.
(b) They all grew up to be writers.
(c) He abandoned all of them at orphanages.
(d) They all died at birth.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the nickname of Helen Demuth who spent her life working for the Marx family?

2. Where is Rousseau buried?

3. What movement did Ralph Waldo Emerson found?

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

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

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