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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 is the name of Marx's wife?

2. What year was Tolstoy born?

3. What poem did Shelley dedicate to his first wife?

4. What was Ibsen's first literary success?

5. How did Shelley die?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How did Ibsen feel about medals and awards?

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

4. How was Emerson viewed in his time?

5. What type of soldier was Tolstoy?

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

7. Describe Ibsen's appearance.

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

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

10. Describe Harriet Shelley.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why is Bertrand Russell called an abstract philosopher? Using textual evidence discuss what the underlying premise of his philosophy was and how it affected his work and other intellectuals.

Essay Topic 2

Johnson states that Hemingway invented a new type of writing style that affect the rest of American writers. Identify this style and how it would go onto influence other intellectual using textual examples from Intellectuals.

Essay Topic 3

Johnson suggests that many of the thinkers could not relate or communicate with people, but were great at sympathizing with ideas. Using textual evidence, identify at least three thinkers who sympathized with ideas rather than actual people and explain how this was manifested.

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