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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9, Jean-Paul Sartre: 'A Little Ball of Fur and Ink'.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the name of Sartre's longtime mistress?
(a) Emilie Pleiade.
(b) Gertrude Stein.
(c) Simone de Beauvois.
(d) Louise Malraux.

2. How did Ibsen feel about dogs?
(a) He was deathly afraid of them.
(b) The barking of dogs gave him headaches.
(c) He was indifferent to animals in general.
(d) He adored dogs and had several as pets.

3. Why did Ibsen claim he liked to be around young women?
(a) They were muses for his writing.
(b) He was attracted sexually to young girls.
(c) He liked to have them about as servants to take care of him.
(d) He liked to pretend they were his daughters.

4. Where is Rousseau buried?
(a) Pere Lachaise Cemetery.
(b) Ile des Peupliers.
(c) Verdunne.
(d) Montmartre.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What mistress of Shelley's would live to be over eighty and inspire Henry James's story, The Aspern Papers?

2. How many pregnancies did Tolstoy's wife have?

3. What did Brecht request to have done with his remains upon his death?

4. What was the name of Russell's fourth wife?

5. How did Hemingway die?

(see the answer key)

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