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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who did Brecht leave rights to his works to in his will?
(a) He left different works to four women.
(b) He left half of his oeuvre to the Communist Party and half to his wife.
(c) He left his estate to his illegimate children and left out his wife.
(d) He left everything to his wife.

2. Where was the ancestral home that Wilson inherited?
(a) In Cape Cod.
(b) In Boston.
(c) In upstate New York.
(d) In Maine.

3. What did Hellman use as inspiration for her book, Miss Lonelyhearts?
(a) Guests' letters that she secretly opened.
(b) Conversations she heard in the stairwell of her apartment.
(c) She stole the material from another writer.
(d) Information from the classifieds.

4. How tall was Sartre?
(a) Just over 5 feet 2 inches.
(b) Just under 6 feet tall.
(c) Very tall at 6 feet 5 inches.
(d) Average nondescript height.

5. Why did Waugh dislike his contemporary, Cyril Connolly?
(a) Connolly would not take a political position.
(b) Connolly was a superior writer and Waugh was jealous.
(c) Connolly vacilated back and forth between different political views.
(d) Connolly politicized himself.

6. What language did Wilson learn and master in order to read books in their original form in the 1930s?
(a) French.
(b) Russian.
(c) Spanish.
(d) German.

7. Who opened Gollancz'a papers for inspection?
(a) His daughter Livia.
(b) His wife.
(c) His brother, Archibald.
(d) Gollancz asked that his papers be made public in his will.

8. What caused Brecht to leave Germany in 1933?
(a) He was offered a position in Russia.
(b) He was invited to go to Hollywood.
(c) Hitler came to power.
(d) He married a woman from Italy.

9. What was the name of Hellman's first hit play?
(a) The Captive.
(b) The Weirding Way.
(c) The Childrens Hour.
(d) Bien-Pensants.

10. What title did Russell hold?
(a) He was a Lord in the House of Parliament.
(b) He was an Earl.
(c) He was a Baron.
(d) He was a Duke.

11. What did Brecht request to have done with his remains upon his death?
(a) He wanted to be cremated.
(b) He wanted to be interred in an above ground marble masoleum.
(c) He wanted to be buried at sea.
(d) He wanted to be buried in a steel coffin.

12. Which author began to correspond with Orwell and visited him in the hospital?
(a) Cyril Connolly.
(b) P.G. Wodehouse.
(c) Evelyn Waugh.
(d) Ezra Pound.

13. What play did Hellman write in the 1960s that was a big success?
(a) Thirty-nine Steps.
(b) Toys in the Attic.
(c) The Seeker.
(d) Evermore.

14. What was the name of Russell's fourth wife?
(a) Alys Jane.
(b) Katherine Perkins.
(c) Edith Finch.
(d) Dora Black.

15. What political party did Sartre decide to back for four years, beginning in 1952?
(a) The French National Party.
(b) The Communist Party.
(c) The New Socialist Party.
(d) The Nazi's.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many siblings did Sartre have?

2. Where did Sartre do most of his writing?

3. What friend did Russell give $3000.00 of stock to during WWII?

4. What work did Wilson write when he was exploring Communist?

5. How did Russell feel about war?

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