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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What subject did Gollancz teach at Repton?
(a) Classics.
(b) French.
(c) Mathematics.
(d) History.
2. Who did Brecht leave rights to his works to in his will?
(a) He left half of his oeuvre to the Communist Party and half to his wife.
(b) He left everything to his wife.
(c) He left his estate to his illegimate children and left out his wife.
(d) He left different works to four women.
3. What color was Wilson's hair?
(a) Brown.
(b) Black.
(c) Blonde.
(d) Red.
4. What type of contact did Hellman have with the workers?
(a) Hellman minutely studied the workers and even lived with them for a year.
(b) Hellman had little contact with the workers.
(c) Hellman had two close friends from the worker class.
(d) Hellman came from a low-income family.
5. How many siblings did Connolly have?
(a) He had three siblings.
(b) He was a twin, but had no other siblings.
(c) He was an only child.
(d) He came from a large family of nine.
6. What was the name of the progressive school that Russell set up?
(a) Principia.
(b) Propitious Grove.
(c) Liberty School.
(d) Beacon Hill.
7. What did Brecht request to have done with his remains upon his death?
(a) He wanted to be buried at sea.
(b) He wanted to be cremated.
(c) He wanted to be interred in an above ground marble masoleum.
(d) He wanted to be buried in a steel coffin.
8. Which political party did Bertolt Brecht faithfully serve?
(a) The Nationalist Party.
(b) The Eastern Democratic Party.
(c) The Nazi Party.
(d) The Communist Party.
9. What honor did Gollancz receive in 1945?
(a) A Knighthood.
(b) He was elected to parliament.
(c) The Golden Seal, a publishers award.
(d) The Nobel Prize.
10. What was the name of the first publishing firm that Gollancz worked for?
(a) Schuster and Simon.
(b) Gramercy.
(c) Benn Brothers.
(d) Easton Press.
11. Which of these was not a critique written by Orwell about Connolly?
(a) He had an authentic lack of scholarship.
(b) He was bad at creating metaphors.
(c) His had a love of leisure and liberty and good living.
(d) He was the most typical man of my generation.
12. Where did Russell believe all of the answers to the riddles of the universe could be found?
(a) In the Bible.
(b) In observing nature.
(c) In the human mind.
(d) He believed that most things could not be solved or understood.
13. How did Russell feel about war?
(a) We do not know his stance on war.
(b) He was a war enthusiast.
(c) He was indifferent to war and did not know much about current events.
(d) He detested war.
14. What political party did Sartre decide to back for four years, beginning in 1952?
(a) The New Socialist Party.
(b) The French National Party.
(c) The Nazi's.
(d) The Communist Party.
15. Where did Sartre do most of his writing?
(a) Out in nature.
(b) In his apartment.
(c) In the library.
(d) In cafes.
Short Answer Questions
1. What was the name of Sartre's first philosophical novel published in 1938?
2. What position did Sartre take after he was released from being a POW?
3. What play did Hellman write in the 1960s that was a big success?
4. What year did Sartre die?
5. What was the name of Hellman's first hit play?
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