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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 vices appealed to Tolstoy the most?

2. How did Marx support his family financially through most of his life?

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

4. How did Hemingway die?

5. How many siblings did Ibsen have?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What addiction did Hemingway suffer from most of his life?

4. How did Tolstoy view women?

5. How did Ibsen interact with women?

6. Describe one of Hemingway's wives in appearance and personality.

7. What type of soldier was Tolstoy?

8. Hemingway was particularly prone to accidents - what were some of the most severe?

9. How was Emerson viewed in his time?

10. Describe Harriet Shelley.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Define the philosophy of existentialism and how it influenced society, both in the time of Jena-Paul Sartre and today.

Essay Topic 3

Intellectuals suggests that Rousseau is credited with affecting thinking in five areas. What are those areas, how did Rousseau change the way they were viewed in society and how have other intellectuals discussed in the book been influenced by them?

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