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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What year did Tolstoy die?
(a) 1899.
(b) 1922.
(c) 1867.
(d) 1910.

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

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

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

6. What was the name of Hemingway's favorite sister?
(a) Dorthy.
(b) Ernesta.
(c) Ursula.
(d) Penelope.

7. What was the name of Rousseau's dog?
(a) Chien.
(b) Petit.
(c) Fido.
(d) Sultan.

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

9. What 10,000 word essay did Shelley write in 1821 as a statement of social purpose?
(a) Ode to the Tyrant.
(b) Ode to Poetry.
(c) The Revolt of Islam.
(d) A Defense of Poetry.

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

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

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

13. What year was Shelley born?
(a) 1792.
(b) 1811.
(c) 1763.
(d) 1799.

14. What movement did Ralph Waldo Emerson found?
(a) Enviornmentalism.
(b) New Nationalism.
(c) Transcendentalism.
(d) Naturalism.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did Marx write the Communist Manifesto?

2. When Marx could not find an academic position after receiving his doctorate, what type of work did begin?

3. What was Hemingway's nickname?

4. How did Ibsen feel about dogs?

5. What type of relationship did Hemingway have with his mother?

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