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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 poem did Shelley dedicate to his first wife?

2. What occupation did Hemingway begin his career with in 1921?

3. What lecture given by Ralph Waldo Emerson would be dubbed the American 'intellectual declaration of independence?'

4. What is the name of the book that Marx spent most of his life working on?

5. What occupation did Hemingway serve latter part of the Great War?

Short Essay Questions

1. Following his death, how did scholars like Eliot, Hugo, Flaubert, Tolstoy, Kant and Shelley regard Rousseau?

2. What effect did Ernst Hemingway have upon American culture?

3. What are some similarities between Tolstoy and Rousseau?

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

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

6. Describe Ibsen's appearance.

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

8. How did Marx believe that Socialism would come about?

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

10. How did Tolstoy view women?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Intellectuals suggests that many great thinkers have uncommon or dysfunctional personal or family relationships. Using textual evidence, identify at least three thinkers who had uncommon family relationships and discuss how this effected their work and their personal life, comparing and contrasting each thinker with the other.

Essay Topic 2

What was Johnson's definition of an intellectual? What was his criteria for one and how to the people mentioned in the book match with this criteria?

Essay Topic 3

A recurrent theme in Intellectuals is the idea of egotism and vanity and how it motivated several intellectuals and affected their self-awareness. Discuss how Johnson draw attention to this theme through individual intellectuals.

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