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

2. What vices appealed to Tolstoy the most?
(a) Drugs and alcohol.
(b) Women and gambling.
(c) Lying and forging.
(d) Drinking and hunting.

3. How did Hemingway interact with his fellow writers?
(a) He was close friends with many writers and corresponded with them frequently.
(b) He was indifferent towards other writers and did not have much interaction with them.
(c) He bitterly quarreled with all of them except Ezra Pound.
(d) He mentored many writers and took pains to help other develop their writing voice.

4. Which of the following is not a play penned by Ibsen?
(a) St. John's Night.
(b) The Priest.
(c) The Warrior's Barrow.
(d) Lady Ingar of Ostraat.

5. What year was Hemingway born?
(a) 1887.
(b) 1903.
(c) 1918.
(d) 1899.

Short Answer Questions

1. What University did Marx receive his doctorate from?

2. What lecture given by Ralph Waldo Emerson would be dubbed the American 'intellectual declaration of independence?'

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

4. How did Ibsen pay for his university education?

5. What is the name of the book that Marx spent most of his life working on?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Following his death, how did scholars like Eliot, Hugo, Flaubert, Tolstoy, Kant and Shelley regard Rousseau?

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

4. What type of soldier was Tolstoy?

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

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

7. How did Ibsen feel about medals and awards?

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

9. How did Tolstoy view women?

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

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