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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 year did Orwell die?
(a) 1945.
(b) 1950.
(c) 1955.
(d) 1961.

2. What was the name of George Orwell when he was born?
(a) Harold Lewis.
(b) Eric Blair.
(c) Keith Burton.
(d) Peter Soles.

3. What foreign country did Gollancz live in briefly while working for the Ministry of Food?
(a) Japan.
(b) Singapore.
(c) India.
(d) China.

4. What was the name of Sartre's first philosophical novel published in 1938?
(a) Comoedia.
(b) Liberte.
(c) War.
(d) La Nausee.

5. What was the name of Gollancz'a wife?
(a) Sybil.
(b) Ruth.
(c) Hilary.
(d) Esther.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the first publishing firm that Gollancz worked for?

2. Which of these was not a critique written by Orwell about Connolly?

3. What type of contact did Hellman have with the workers?

4. What year was Bertrand Russell born?

5. After Gollancz broke with the Communist, which party did he begin to support?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How did Hellman view her mother?

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

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

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

7. How does Johnson describe Wilson's writings?

8. Why does Johnson describe Russell as being detached from physical reality?

9. What type of relationships did Gollancz have with people from the working class?

10. Why did Russell like Mathematics?

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