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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 did Wilson regard women?
(a) He saw women as incapable darlings.
(b) He was completely indifferent towards women and saw them only as objects.
(c) He was somewhat fearful of them.
(d) He adored and worshipped women.

2. What was the name of Russell's first wife who was a Quaker?
(a) Dora Johnson.
(b) Beatrice Webb.
(c) Alys Whitall.
(d) Lady Ottoline.

3. What was Brecht's first successful play?
(a) The Mother.
(b) Triumph and Sadness.
(c) The Slave.
(d) Spartakus.

4. What political party did Sartre decide to back for four years, beginning in 1952?
(a) The French National Party.
(b) The New Socialist Party.
(c) The Nazi's.
(d) The Communist Party.

5. What did Hellman use as inspiration for her book, Miss Lonelyhearts?
(a) Conversations she heard in the stairwell of her apartment.
(b) She stole the material from another writer.
(c) Information from the classifieds.
(d) Guests' letters that she secretly opened.

Short Answer Questions

1. What language did Wilson learn and master in order to read books in their original form in the 1930s?

2. What honor did Gollancz receive in 1945?

3. What is the name of the mystery writer with whom Hellman had a long time affair?

4. What year did Gollancz break with the Communist party?

5. What year did Orwell die?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the uniform Brecht devised for himself in developing of his persona.

2. Why was Hellman blacklisted from Hollywood in 1948?

3. Why does Johnson believe that Gollancz is an important intellectual if he did not give birth to a salient idea himself?

4. Describe Brecht's childhood.

5. Why did Russell like Mathematics?

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

7. Why did Gollancz prefer to hire female employees?

8. According to Johnson, what did Orwell believe about what force had the power to shape the world.

9. How does Johnson describe Wilson's writings?

10. How did Hellman view her mother?

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