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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) 1955.
(b) 1945.
(c) 1950.
(d) 1961.

2. What enabled Wilson financially to travel to Russia?
(a) An advance on his next book.
(b) A legacy from his father.
(c) He won the lottery.
(d) A Guggenheim scholarship.

3. How did Russell feel about war?
(a) He detested war.
(b) We do not know his stance on war.
(c) He was indifferent to war and did not know much about current events.
(d) He was a war enthusiast.

4. Where did Russell believe all of the answers to the riddles of the universe could be found?
(a) In the human mind.
(b) In the Bible.
(c) He believed that most things could not be solved or understood.
(d) In observing nature.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of Gollancz'a wife?

2. What job did Hellman have with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1929?

3. What year did Wilson die?

4. What play did Hellman write in the 1960s that was a big success?

5. What was the name of George Orwell when he was born?

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 activity of Russell's resulted in a mock War Crimes Tribunal held in Stockholm?

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

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

5. Describe Brecht's childhood.

6. How did Hellman view her father?

7. Describe Jean-Paul Sartre's appearance.

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

9. What made Sartre famous in 1944?

10. How did Gollancz typically make his agreements with authors?

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