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

2. What religion did Ibsen follow?

3. What was Ibsen's first literary success?

4. What occupation did Hemingway's father hold?

5. What mistress of Shelley's would live to be over eighty and inspire Henry James's story, The Aspern Papers?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How did Ibsen feel about medals and awards?

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

4. What personal hygiene habits did Hemingway have?

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

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

7. Describe Harriet Shelley.

8. What are some similarities between Tolstoy and Rousseau?

9. What arrangement did Shelley attempt to make with his women counterparts, that never worked?

10. How was Emerson viewed in his time?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Is there an overarching moral to Intellectual, and if so, what is it and how does Johnson establish this moral?

Essay Topic 2

One recurrent theme in Intellectual is that of self promotion at all costs, even using false information and media tactics to create a persona. Using specific textual examples discuss how at least two intellectuals embodied this idea of self promotion and executed the development of their persona.

Essay Topic 3

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?

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