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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What was Brecht's first successful play?
(a) Spartakus.
(b) The Mother.
(c) The Slave.
(d) Triumph and Sadness.
2. What was the name of Connolly's wife?
(a) Harriet Boswell.
(b) Jean Bakewell.
(c) Gretchen Smith.
(d) Katherine Wilson.
3. What was the name of the progressive school that Russell set up?
(a) Liberty School.
(b) Principia.
(c) Propitious Grove.
(d) Beacon Hill.
4. 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.
5. What year did Sartre die?
(a) 1977.
(b) 1983.
(c) 1972.
(d) 1980.
6. What was the name of Sartre's first philosophical novel published in 1938?
(a) La Nausee.
(b) War.
(c) Comoedia.
(d) Liberte.
7. What was the name of Brecht's wife?
(a) Isot Kilian.
(b) Kathe Rulicke.
(c) Helene Weigel.
(d) Ruth Berlau.
8. What year did Gollancz die?
(a) 1959.
(b) 1971.
(c) 1962.
(d) 1967.
9. How many books did he author?
(a) 4.
(b) 14.
(c) 108.
(d) 68.
10. What year did Russell die?
(a) 1970.
(b) 1942.
(c) 1980.
(d) 1951.
11. Which of the following was not a title of a volume of Hellman's autobiography?
(a) A Spark of Life.
(b) An Unfinished Woman.
(c) Scoundrel Time.
(d) Pentimento.
12. What was the name of Hellman's play that dealt with strikes and was a disaster?
(a) Largo.
(b) The LIttle Foxes.
(c) Days to Come.
(d) Circa.
13. What work did Wilson write when he was exploring Communist?
(a) Letters to Stalin.
(b) To the Finland Station.
(c) A Socialist View.
(d) The Trotsky theory.
14. What was the name of the rich Philadelphian with whom Hellman became involved with towards the end of her life?
(a) Samuel McCracken.
(b) Herbert Steiner.
(c) Joseph McCarthy.
(d) Arthut Cowan.
15. Why did Hellman owe almost two hundred thousand dollars to the government in 1952?
(a) She had been fined for her political involvement with the Communist Party.
(b) She had never paid fees associated with her copyrights for her works.
(c) She had neglected to pay income tax for several years.
(d) She was fined the amount in alternative for serving jail time for a felony she committed.
Short Answer Questions
1. How did Waugh describe society?
2. Which of these was not written by Brecht?
3. Where was the ancestral home that Wilson inherited?
4. What was the name of Sartre's longtime mistress?
5. What job did Hellman have with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1929?
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