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 Sartre die?
(a) 1977.
(b) 1983.
(c) 1972.
(d) 1980.

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

3. What opera had Gollancz seen forty-seven times before the age of twenty-one?
(a) La Boheme.
(b) Turnadot.
(c) Aida.
(d) Faust.

4. What was the name of the first publishing firm that Gollancz worked for?
(a) Easton Press.
(b) Gramercy.
(c) Benn Brothers.
(d) Schuster and Simon.

5. Where did Sartre do most of his writing?
(a) Out in nature.
(b) In cafes.
(c) In his apartment.
(d) In the library.

6. What year did Russell die?
(a) 1951.
(b) 1980.
(c) 1970.
(d) 1942.

7. What position did Sartre take after he was released from being a POW?
(a) He was a journalist.
(b) He found a teaching position.
(c) He worked with the Vichy.
(d) He worked as a mason.

8. What was the name of the intellectual who Johnson claimed attempted to legitimize personal violence?
(a) Evelyn Waugh.
(b) Norman Mailer.
(c) George Orwell.
(d) Cyril Connoly.

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

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

11. Where did Russell believe all of the answers to the riddles of the universe could be found?
(a) In observing nature.
(b) In the Bible.
(c) He believed that most things could not be solved or understood.
(d) In the human mind.

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

13. What occupation did Wilson's father hold?
(a) He was a doctor.
(b) He was a lawyer.
(c) He was a farmer.
(d) He was a philosopher.

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

15. What desire did Wilson's mother have for him?
(a) She saw his potential and urged him to be a writer.
(b) She wanted him to become a distinguished athete.
(c) She wanted him to be an architect.
(d) She wanted him to become a doctor and save lives.

Short Answer Questions

1. What enabled Wilson financially to travel to Russia?

2. What was the name of Russell's fourth wife?

3. What was the name of Connolly's wife?

4. How did Wilson regard women?

5. What year did Orwell die?

(see the answer keys)

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