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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What year was Bertrand Russell born?
(a) 1888.
(b) 1872.
(c) 1903.
(d) 1876.

4. What was the name of the American philosophy graduate who became Russell's secretary?
(a) Ralph Schoenman.
(b) Harold Earkin.
(c) Philip Wise.
(d) Arthur Koestler.

5. What was the name of Sartre's first philosophical novel published in 1938?
(a) Comoedia.
(b) War.
(c) Liberte.
(d) La Nausee.

6. What was Brecht's first Marxist work that was produced in 1930?
(a) Die Massanhme.
(b) Kaspar.
(c) Threepenny Opera.
(d) Erfolg.

7. What year did Sartre die?
(a) 1980.
(b) 1977.
(c) 1972.
(d) 1983.

8. What honor did Gollancz receive in 1945?
(a) He was elected to parliament.
(b) A Knighthood.
(c) The Nobel Prize.
(d) The Golden Seal, a publishers award.

9. What was the name of Brecht's wife?
(a) Isot Kilian.
(b) Ruth Berlau.
(c) Helene Weigel.
(d) Kathe Rulicke.

10. What type of contact did Hellman have with the workers?
(a) Hellman had little contact with the workers.
(b) Hellman came from a low-income family.
(c) Hellman minutely studied the workers and even lived with them for a year.
(d) Hellman had two close friends from the worker class.

11. What enabled Wilson financially to travel to Russia?
(a) A legacy from his father.
(b) A Guggenheim scholarship.
(c) An advance on his next book.
(d) He won the lottery.

12. How did Russell feel about war?
(a) He was indifferent to war and did not know much about current events.
(b) He detested war.
(c) He was a war enthusiast.
(d) We do not know his stance on war.

13. How many siblings did Connolly have?
(a) He had three siblings.
(b) He was an only child.
(c) He was a twin, but had no other siblings.
(d) He came from a large family of nine.

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

15. What was the name of Hellman's play that dealt with strikes and was a disaster?
(a) The LIttle Foxes.
(b) Days to Come.
(c) Largo.
(d) Circa.

Short Answer Questions

1. What desire did Wilson's mother have for him?

2. How many siblings did Sartre have?

3. How was Brecht's work received in the United States?

4. What award did Brecht win in 1922 for being the best young dramatist.

5. What year did Hellman die?

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