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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the name of Marx's daughter, who became a mistress of Edward Aveling?
(a) Jenny.
(b) Helen.
(c) Eleanor.
(d) Laura.

3. 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.

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

5. Why did Ibsen claim he liked to be around young women?
(a) He liked to have them about as servants to take care of him.
(b) He liked to pretend they were his daughters.
(c) He was attracted sexually to young girls.
(d) They were muses for his writing.

6. Where was Hemingway's home Finca Vigia?
(a) On the island of Crete.
(b) In Flordia.
(c) In Madrid Spain.
(d) In Cuba.

7. Where was Rousseau born?
(a) Paris.
(b) Provence.
(c) Geneva.
(d) Zurich.

8. Which contemporary of Rousseau's wrote an attack on him called Le Sentiment des Citoyens?
(a) Diderot.
(b) Hume.
(c) Voltaire.
(d) Grimm.

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

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

11. What caused Hemingway to lose interest in his affair with Jane Mason?
(a) She was unwilling to live in a 'menage a trois' with his wife.
(b) She gained a lot of weight.
(c) She tried to convince him to sober up.
(d) She tried to commit suicide and broke her back.

12. Who would receive Shelley's title of baronet?
(a) His son Charles.
(b) His son Percy.
(c) His friend Byron.
(d) His cousin William.

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

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

15. In what year did Marx write the Communist Manifesto?
(a) 1848.
(b) 1855.
(c) 1873.
(d) 1862.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Tolstoy correspond with frequently in his old age, offering his opinions on every subject?

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

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

4. What is the name of the partner, with whom Marx co-authored many of his works?

5. What was Ibsen's first literary success?

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