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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 movement did Ralph Waldo Emerson found?
(a) Transcendentalism.
(b) Enviornmentalism.
(c) Naturalism.
(d) New Nationalism.

2. What year was Tolstoy born?
(a) 1828.
(b) 1812.
(c) 1903.
(d) 1894.

3. What is the name of the school mistress who loaned Shelley 100 pounds (her life savings), that was never repaid.
(a) Claire Clairmont.
(b) Fanny Imlay.
(c) Elizabeth Hitchener.
(d) Harriet Gogg.

4. What political approach did Hemingway take in his perspective of the Spanish Civil War?
(a) He wrote from the Communist Party line.
(b) He wrote with a republican agenda.
(c) He wrote with an emphasis on Capitalism.
(d) He supported the Fascist perspective.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Ibsen claim he liked to be around young women?

2. Which benefactress of Rousseau died of malnutrition after he refused to help her in her old age?

3. What is the name of the partner, with whom Marx co-authored many of his works?

4. How did Hemingway feel about the media, including photo-calls and interviews?

5. What year did Tolstoy die?

Short Essay Questions

1. What addiction did Hemingway suffer from most of his life?

2. What effect did Ernst Hemingway have upon American culture?

3. What duty did Percy Bysshe Shelley believe that the enlightened man had to society?

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

5. What type of soldier was Tolstoy?

6. What personal hygiene habits did Hemingway have?

7. How did Ibsen interact with women?

8. Describe Rousseau's family life in his youth.

9. Describe Harriet Shelley.

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

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