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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Ibsen feel about dogs?
(a) He adored dogs and had several as pets.
(b) He was indifferent to animals in general.
(c) The barking of dogs gave him headaches.
(d) He was deathly afraid of them.

2. What was the name of Hemingway's fourth wife?
(a) Martha Gellhorn.
(b) Hadley Richardson.
(c) Mary Welsh.
(d) Pauline Pfeiffer.

3. What occupation did Hemingway serve latter part of the Great War?
(a) He served as a pilot in the airforce.
(b) He worked as an ambulance worker.
(c) He was a spy stationed in Italy.
(d) He served on a submarine.

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

5. How did Marx's daughter Laura die?
(a) Drowning.
(b) She died in childbirth.
(c) Suicide.
(d) Throat cancer.

6. How did Shelley die?
(a) He suffered a heart attack.
(b) He overdosed on opium.
(c) He was shot.
(d) He drowned.

7. What was the name of Tolstoy's youngest daughter that revered him as his disciple?
(a) Tanya.
(b) Alexandra.
(c) Sonya.
(d) Masha.

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

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

10. What was the name of the US Ambassador that gave him a job to look out for German U-boats?
(a) Don Passos.
(b) Robert Jordan.
(c) Spruille braden.
(d) Art Duran.

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

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

13. Who did Tolstoy correspond with frequently in his old age, offering his opinions on every subject?
(a) Many serfs from his childhood home.
(b) Charles Dickens.
(c) Heads of state.
(d) The pope.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Marx support his family financially through most of his life?

2. What ancient languages did Shelley attain great fluency in at Eton?

3. What 10,000 word essay did Shelley write in 1821 as a statement of social purpose?

4. What was Ibsen's first literary success?

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

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