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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. How was Brecht's work received in the United States?
(a) Hollywood embraced his style.
(b) He was not accepted.
(c) The government provided him with a small stipend.
(d) Brecht never attempted to promote his work in America.

2. What was the name of Hellman's play that dealt with strikes and was a disaster?
(a) Days to Come.
(b) Largo.
(c) Circa.
(d) The LIttle Foxes.

3. What job did Hellman have with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1929?
(a) She was a delivery girl.
(b) She was an editor.
(c) She read scripts.
(d) She was a staff writer.

4. Which author began to correspond with Orwell and visited him in the hospital?
(a) Evelyn Waugh.
(b) Cyril Connolly.
(c) P.G. Wodehouse.
(d) Ezra Pound.

5. What event caused the breakup of Wilson's marriage to Mary McCarthy?
(a) His wife unexpectedly died.
(b) He was caught having an affair.
(c) He cauth his wife having an affair and left her.
(d) He punched his wife and she left him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What honor did Gollancz receive in 1945?

2. What religion did Russell believe?

3. Who did Brecht leave rights to his works to in his will?

4. What was the name of Russell's fourth wife?

5. What work did Wilson write when he was exploring Communist?

Short Essay Questions

1. What redeeming quality does Johnson specifically note of Brecht?

2. How did Hellman view her mother?

3. After Wilson's visit to Russia, what were his impressions of the country and people on his return home?

4. Briefly describe the life of Dashiell Hammett, Hellman's long time lover.

5. What event caused Orwell to realize that the left was capable of injustice and cruelty of kind almost unknown?

6. What business arrangements did Brecht make for himself in 1949 that gave him artistic freedom as well as great revenue?

7. What type of relationship did Wilson have with other writers?

8. What political views did Wilson adopt during the Great Depression?

9. What importance did Sartre place upon literature and letters?

10. Why was Hellman blacklisted from Hollywood in 1948?

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