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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 position did Sartre take after he was released from being a POW?
(a) He worked as a mason.
(b) He was a journalist.
(c) He worked with the Vichy.
(d) He found a teaching position.

2. Why did Waugh dislike his contemporary, Cyril Connolly?
(a) Connolly politicized himself.
(b) Connolly vacilated back and forth between different political views.
(c) Connolly would not take a political position.
(d) Connolly was a superior writer and Waugh was jealous.

3. What year was Hellman born?
(a) 1905.
(b) 1899.
(c) 1911.
(d) 1910.

4. Which of the following was not a title of a volume of Hellman's autobiography?
(a) An Unfinished Woman.
(b) Scoundrel Time.
(c) A Spark of Life.
(d) Pentimento.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of Brecht's wife?

2. What is the autobiography penned by Sartre?

3. How did Waugh describe society?

4. What religion did Russell believe?

5. How tall was Sartre?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe Brecht's childhood.

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

4. Why did Bertrand Russell write so much?

5. Why did Gollancz prefer to hire female employees?

6. How did Sartre feel towards America?

7. How does Johnson describe Wilson's writings?

8. Why did Russell like Mathematics?

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

10. What did Orwell think of fellow intellectuals in comparison to the poor?

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