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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. When Marx could not find an academic position after receiving his doctorate, what type of work did begin?
(a) He became a journalist.
(b) He became a librarian.
(c) He because a privat tutor.
(d) He became a factory foreman.

2. Which contemporary of Rousseau's wrote an attack on him called Le Sentiment des Citoyens?
(a) Grimm.
(b) Voltaire.
(c) Hume.
(d) Diderot.

3. Who was the first great nineteenth century American intellectual?
(a) Nathanial Hawthorne.
(b) Ralph Waldo Emerson.
(c) Gertrude Stein.
(d) Mark Twain.

4. What vocation did Rousseau's father have?
(a) He was a watchmaker.
(b) He was a politician.
(c) He was a writer.
(d) He was born an aristocrat.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of Shelley's first wife?

2. What was the name of Hemingway's fourth wife?

3. What movement did Ralph Waldo Emerson found?

4. What young woman was a laundress and agreed to become Rousseau's mistress on a permanent basis?

5. What was Ibsen's first literary success?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What type of soldier was Tolstoy?

6. How did the American public view Hemingway?

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

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

9. Describe Ibsen's appearance.

10. How did Ibsen interact with women?

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