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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 Wilson regard women?

2. What event caused the breakup of Wilson's marriage to Mary McCarthy?

3. What play did Hellman write in the 1960s that was a big success?

4. What was the name of Sartre's first philosophical novel published in 1938?

5. What is the autobiography penned by Sartre?

Short Essay Questions

1. What business arrangements did Brecht make for himself in 1949 that gave him artistic freedom as well as great revenue?

2. How did Gollancz typically make his agreements with authors?

3. According to Johnson, what did Orwell believe about what force had the power to shape the world.

4. Why did Gollancz prefer to hire female employees?

5. What made Sartre famous in 1944?

6. Why did Bertrand Russell write so much?

7. Why does Johnson describe Russell as being detached from physical reality?

8. What did Orwell think of fellow intellectuals in comparison to the poor?

9. Describe Orwell's appearance.

10. What type of relationship did Wilson have with other writers?

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

Intellectuals suggests that Ibsen addressed social conventions and changed the way society viewed personal freedoms. What social conventions did Ibsen draw attention to, and how did his view of personal freedom affect society and other intellectuals mentioned in the book?

Essay Topic 3

Johnson identifies rebellion against convention as a motivation for most intellectuals. Selecting several intellectuals and using textual evidence describe how their philosophy could be viewed as a rebellion against pervading society and describe how it changed the way people looked at conventions.

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