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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, Henrik Ibsen: 'On the Contrary'.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What mistress of Shelley's would live to be over eighty and inspire Henry James's story, The Aspern Papers?
(a) Elena Goodwin.
(b) Beth Owen.
(c) Mary Hoppner.
(d) Claire Clairmont.

2. How many siblings did Ibsen have?
(a) 4.
(b) 2.
(c) 1.
(d) He was an only child.

3. In what year did Marx write the Communist Manifesto?
(a) 1855.
(b) 1862.
(c) 1848.
(d) 1873.

4. What young woman was a laundress and agreed to become Rousseau's mistress on a permanent basis?
(a) Madame Melchior.
(b) Therese Levasseur.
(c) Madame d'Epinay.
(d) Joan MacDonald.

5. Which contemporary of Rousseau's wrote an attack on him called Le Sentiment des Citoyens?
(a) Diderot.
(b) Hume.
(c) Grimm.
(d) Voltaire.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which benefactress of Rousseau died of malnutrition after he refused to help her in her old age?

2. What was the nickname of Helen Demuth who spent her life working for the Marx family?

3. What is the name of the partner, with whom Marx co-authored many of his works?

4. What country was Ibsen born in?

5. What poem did Shelley dedicate to his first wife?

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