Intellectuals Test | Final Test - Easy

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Intellectuals Test | Final Test - Easy

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What year did Brecht die?
(a) 1948.
(b) 1959.
(c) 1954.
(d) 1962.

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

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

4. How many wives did Wilson have?
(a) 3.
(b) 6.
(c) 2.
(d) 4.

5. What year did Wilson die?
(a) 1989.
(b) 1978.
(c) 1966.
(d) 1972.

6. What friend did Russell give $3000.00 of stock to during WWII?
(a) George Santayana.
(b) T.S. Eliot.
(c) Lady Constance Malleson.
(d) Williams Stratchey.

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

8. What venture did Gollancz start to counter the unwillingness of booksellers to stock ultra-left propaganda?
(a) The CP Serial.
(b) The Left Book Club.
(c) The Canterbury Monthly.
(d) The Daily Worker.

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

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

11. How did Wilson regard women?
(a) He was somewhat fearful of them.
(b) He was completely indifferent towards women and saw them only as objects.
(c) He adored and worshipped women.
(d) He saw women as incapable darlings.

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

13. What year did Hellman die?
(a) 1984.
(b) 1991.
(c) 1976.
(d) 1989.

14. Which of these was not a critique written by Orwell about Connolly?
(a) He was the most typical man of my generation.
(b) He had an authentic lack of scholarship.
(c) He was bad at creating metaphors.
(d) His had a love of leisure and liberty and good living.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What subject did Gollancz teach at Repton?

2. What year did Russell die?

3. Where was the ancestral home that Wilson inherited?

4. What is the autobiography penned by Sartre?

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

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