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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's second wife die?

2. Where did Sartre do most of his writing?

3. What was the name of Hellman's play that dealt with strikes and was a disaster?

4. What political party did Sartre decide to back for four years, beginning in 1952?

5. How did Waugh describe society?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Russell like Mathematics?

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

3. Describe Jean-Paul Sartre's appearance.

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

5. How did Hellman view her mother?

6. How did Sartre feel towards America?

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

8. Why was Hellman blacklisted from Hollywood in 1948?

9. What event caused Orwell to realize that the left was capable of injustice and cruelty of kind almost unknown?

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

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

A recurrent theme in Intellectuals is the idea of egotism and vanity and how it motivated several intellectuals and affected their self-awareness. Discuss how Johnson draw attention to this theme through individual intellectuals.

Essay Topic 3

Johnson pays particular notice to the birth order of each individual and what their life was like growing up. Selecting at least three different intellectuals, compare their birth order, and childhood and how that affected their work as an artist and also their personal relationships at maturity.

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