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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 Brecht die?
(a) 1959.
(b) 1954.
(c) 1962.
(d) 1948.

2. Who does Johnson select as the write to represent the Old Intellectual belief in utopia?
(a) Normal Mailer.
(b) Evelyn Waugh.
(c) G.K. Chesterton.
(d) George Orwell.

3. What subject did Gollancz teach at Repton?
(a) Mathematics.
(b) Classics.
(c) History.
(d) French.

4. How many siblings did Sartre have?
(a) He was an only child.
(b) 4.
(c) 1.
(d) 9.

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. Where was the ancestral home that Wilson inherited?

2. What title did Russell hold?

3. What foreign country did Gollancz live in briefly while working for the Ministry of Food?

4. How tall was Sartre?

5. What year was Hellman born?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How did Hellman view her father?

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

5. Describe Jean-Paul Sartre's appearance.

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

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

8. What made Sartre famous in 1944?

9. How did Hellman view her mother?

10. Why did Russell like Mathematics?

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