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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 was the name of the intellectual who Johnson claimed attempted to legitimize personal violence?

2. How many wives did Wilson have?

3. Which author began to correspond with Orwell and visited him in the hospital?

4. How many siblings did Sartre have?

5. How did Waugh describe society?

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. Why did Russell like Mathematics?

3. What type of relationships did Gollancz have with people from the working class?

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

5. Describe the uniform Brecht devised for himself in developing of his persona.

6. Why does Johnson believe that Gollancz is an important intellectual if he did not give birth to a salient idea himself?

7. How did Hellman view her mother?

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

9. Describe Jean-Paul Sartre's appearance.

10. Why did Gollancz prefer to hire female employees?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Johnson claims that Karl Marx's theories had more impact on people than any other intellectual. Discuss why this is and whether or not you agree with Johnson's conclusion.

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

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.

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