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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What country was Ibsen born in?

2. How many siblings did Ibsen have?

3. What movement did Ralph Waldo Emerson found?

4. What work did Rousseau write that was autobiographical?

5. How did Ibsen pay for his university education?

Short Essay Questions

1. What action did Rousseau take after his second book prompted book burning and resulted in a warrant for his arrest in France?

2. What duty did Percy Bysshe Shelley believe that the enlightened man had to society?

3. Why are all of Ibsen's works so different?

4. What type of soldier was Tolstoy?

5. What type of childhood did Shelley have as described in Chapter 2?

6. Why could it be argued that Karl Marx is the intellectual who has had the most impact on people?

7. What personal hygiene habits did Hemingway have?

8. When Marx wrote poetry as a child, what was the content of his creations?

9. Describe the typical arc of Rousseau's friendships.

10. Describe Ibsen's appearance.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Johnson pays particular notice to the birth order of each individual and what their life was like growing up. Selecting at least three different intellectuals, compare their birth order, and childhood and how that affected their work as an artist and also their personal relationships at maturity.

Essay Topic 2

Johnson spend a lot of time discussing how each Intellectual saw himself, and how each defined their role in relation to mankind. Select two different Intellectuals compare and contrast using textual evidence the self image each had and what effect they hoped to achieve in the world.

Essay Topic 3

Intellectuals suggests that Ibsen addressed social conventions and changed the way society viewed personal freedoms. What social conventions did Ibsen draw attention to, and how did his view of personal freedom affect society and other intellectuals mentioned in the book?

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