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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 type of vocation did Marx's family (on both sides) participate in?
(a) They were factory workers from the proletariat class.
(b) They were farmers.
(c) They were Talmudic scholars.
(d) They were aristocrats.

2. What was the name of the progressive school that Russell set up?
(a) Liberty School.
(b) Propitious Grove.
(c) Principia.
(d) Beacon Hill.

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

4. What year did Wilson die?
(a) 1989.
(b) 1978.
(c) 1966.
(d) 1972.

5. Where was the ancestral home that Wilson inherited?
(a) In Cape Cod.
(b) In upstate New York.
(c) In Boston.
(d) In Maine.

Short Answer Questions

1. What University did Marx receive his doctorate from?

2. What enabled Wilson financially to travel to Russia?

3. What political cause did Gollancz successfully campaign for that was close to his heart?

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

5. Which contemporary of Rousseau's wrote an attack on him called Le Sentiment des Citoyens?

(see the answer key)

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