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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 Shelley die?

2. What is the name of the person, whom Ibsen based his character of Nora from A Doll's House on?

3. How many siblings did Ibsen have?

4. For which American newspaper did Marx work as a European correspondent for?

5. How many drafts of War and Peace did Tolstoy write?

Short Essay Questions

1. What type of relationship did Marx have with the working class?

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

3. What are some similarities between Tolstoy and Rousseau?

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

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

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

7. How did Tolstoy view women?

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

9. What type of soldier was Tolstoy?

10. How did Ibsen feel about medals and awards?

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

What is Paul Johnson's writing style? Discuss both the mechanical aspect of his writing and his "voice" throughout the book. Make sure and discuss what literary tools and devices he relies on most and what specific parts of the text reflect his voice?

Essay Topic 3

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.

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