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

2. Which of these was not a critique written by Orwell about Connolly?
(a) He was bad at creating metaphors.
(b) His had a love of leisure and liberty and good living.
(c) He had an authentic lack of scholarship.
(d) He was the most typical man of my generation.

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

4. What was the name of Sartre's longtime mistress?
(a) Gertrude Stein.
(b) Simone de Beauvois.
(c) Louise Malraux.
(d) Emilie Pleiade.

5. What was Brecht's first Marxist work that was produced in 1930?
(a) Die Massanhme.
(b) Erfolg.
(c) Threepenny Opera.
(d) Kaspar.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of Sartre's first philosophical novel published in 1938?

2. Who opened Gollancz'a papers for inspection?

3. What event caused the breakup of Wilson's marriage to Mary McCarthy?

4. What position did Sartre take after he was released from being a POW?

5. How did Brecht die?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Hellman view her mother?

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

3. Why did Bertrand Russell write so much?

4. What made Sartre famous in 1944?

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

6. How does Johnson describe Wilson's writings?

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

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

9. Why did Gollancz prefer to hire female employees?

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

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