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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11, The Troubled Conscience of Victor Gollancz.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What caused Brecht to leave Germany in 1933?
(a) He married a woman from Italy.
(b) Hitler came to power.
(c) He was offered a position in Russia.
(d) He was invited to go to Hollywood.

2. What was the name of the first publishing firm that Gollancz worked for?
(a) Benn Brothers.
(b) Gramercy.
(c) Easton Press.
(d) Schuster and Simon.

3. How did Ibsen pay for his university education?
(a) By writing plays.
(b) He worked at the fish docks.
(c) He worked as a grammar tutor.
(d) By waiting tables.

4. What is the name of Ibsen's wife?
(a) Eliza.
(b) Suzannah.
(c) Anna.
(d) Mary.

5. What foreign country did Gollancz live in briefly while working for the Ministry of Food?
(a) Singapore.
(b) India.
(c) Japan.
(d) China.

Short Answer Questions

1. What opera had Gollancz seen forty-seven times before the age of twenty-one?

2. How was Brecht's work received in the United States?

3. What venture did Gollancz start to counter the unwillingness of booksellers to stock ultra-left propaganda?

4. What year did Gollancz break with the Communist party?

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

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