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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 young woman was a laundress and agreed to become Rousseau's mistress on a permanent basis?
(a) Therese Levasseur.
(b) Madame Melchior.
(c) Madame d'Epinay.
(d) Joan MacDonald.

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

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

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

5. Where was Hemingway's home Finca Vigia?
(a) In Cuba.
(b) On the island of Crete.
(c) In Flordia.
(d) In Madrid Spain.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Rousseau born?

2. How many pregnancies did Tolstoy's wife have?

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

4. What work did Rousseau write that was autobiographical?

5. What was the name of the US Ambassador that gave him a job to look out for German U-boats?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How did Ibsen interact with women?

3. Why did Tolstoy go through periods where he would renounce art and only exert moral leadership?

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

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

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

7. How did Ibsen feel about medals and awards?

8. Hemingway was particularly prone to accidents - what were some of the most severe?

9. What personal hygiene habits did Hemingway have?

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

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