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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What about Orwell's lifestyle was unlike other intellectuals or writers?
(a) He lived among the working class.
(b) He had another occupation for most of his life.
(c) He did not intend to share his writings with the world.
(d) He was self-educated.

2. What was Brecht's first successful play?
(a) Triumph and Sadness.
(b) The Slave.
(c) Spartakus.
(d) The Mother.

3. What was the name of Hellman's first hit play?
(a) Bien-Pensants.
(b) The Childrens Hour.
(c) The Captive.
(d) The Weirding Way.

4. What political party did Sartre decide to back for four years, beginning in 1952?
(a) The Nazi's.
(b) The French National Party.
(c) The Communist Party.
(d) The New Socialist Party.

5. What award did Brecht win in 1922 for being the best young dramatist.
(a) The Quill.
(b) The Nobel Prize for literature.
(c) The Pulitzer.
(d) The Kleist Prize.

6. What was the name of Gollancz'a wife?
(a) Sybil.
(b) Hilary.
(c) Esther.
(d) Ruth.

7. What caused Brecht to leave Germany in 1933?
(a) He married a woman from Italy.
(b) He was offered a position in Russia.
(c) He was invited to go to Hollywood.
(d) Hitler came to power.

8. What is the autobiography penned by Sartre?
(a) C'est la.
(b) Rouge.
(c) La Vie.
(d) Les Mots.

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

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

11. 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) His had a love of leisure and liberty and good living.
(d) He was bad at creating metaphors.

12. How many siblings did Sartre have?
(a) He was an only child.
(b) 1.
(c) 4.
(d) 9.

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

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) Joseph McCarthy.
(c) Arthut Cowan.
(d) Herbert Steiner.

15. Who does Johnson select as the write to represent the Old Intellectual belief in utopia?
(a) George Orwell.
(b) Normal Mailer.
(c) G.K. Chesterton.
(d) Evelyn Waugh.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many siblings did Connolly have?

2. How many wives did Wilson have?

3. What was the name of George Orwell when he was born?

4. What year did Brecht die?

5. What position did Sartre have during the war?

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