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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Hemingway's first published work?
(a) The Sun Also Rises.
(b) Three Stories and Ten Poems.
(c) For Whom the Bell Tolls.
(d) The Old Man and the Sea.

2. What was the name of Hemingway's favorite sister?
(a) Ernesta.
(b) Ursula.
(c) Penelope.
(d) Dorthy.

3. What year was Shelley born?
(a) 1763.
(b) 1799.
(c) 1792.
(d) 1811.

4. How did Hemingway regard organized religion?
(a) He saw it as a menace to human happiness.
(b) He identified Christianity with male honor.
(c) He had no opinion on religion.
(d) He believed in personal worship rather than organized religion.

5. How did Marx's daughter Laura die?
(a) She died in childbirth.
(b) Drowning.
(c) Throat cancer.
(d) Suicide.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Shelley's nickname at school?

2. What country was Ibsen born in?

3. Which of the following armies did Tolstoy not fight during his tenure with the Russian army?

4. For which American newspaper did Marx work as a European correspondent for?

5. What type of vocation did Marx's family (on both sides) participate in?

Short Essay Questions

1. What type of relationship did Marx have with the working class?

2. How did Marx believe that Socialism would come about?

3. Why could it be argued that Karl Marx is the intellectual who has had the most impact on people?

4. Describe the typical arc of Rousseau's friendships.

5. How did the American public view Hemingway?

6. Describe one of Hemingway's wives in appearance and personality.

7. What comparison can be made between the views of Emerson and the views of Marx?

8. Why are all of Ibsen's works so different?

9. When Marx wrote poetry as a child, what was the content of his creations?

10. What action did Rousseau take after his second book prompted book burning and resulted in a warrant for his arrest in France?

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