View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13, pgs. 324 - 342.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Brecht die?
(a) He was in a car accident.
(b) He suffered a heart attack.
(c) He committed suicide.
(d) He was executed by a West German sniper.

2. What is the name of the school mistress who loaned Shelley 100 pounds (her life savings), that was never repaid.
(a) Harriet Gogg.
(b) Fanny Imlay.
(c) Claire Clairmont.
(d) Elizabeth Hitchener.

3. What was the name of the rich Philadelphian with whom Hellman became involved with towards the end of her life?
(a) Herbert Steiner.
(b) Arthut Cowan.
(c) Joseph McCarthy.
(d) Samuel McCracken.

4. What happened to Rousseau's children?
(a) They were adopted by Lord Boswell in England.
(b) He abandoned all of them at orphanages.
(c) They all grew up to be writers.
(d) They all died at birth.

5. How did Waugh describe society?
(a) He described it as being far worse than it was.
(b) He described it as it was and as it must be.
(c) He described it as he hoped it to be.
(d) He did not describe society, but stuck mainly to esotaric ideas.

Short Answer Questions

1. What other Intellectual influenced Tolstoy in his youth?

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

3. What is the name of Rousseau's first novel?

4. How did Shelley die?

5. When Marx could not find an academic position after receiving his doctorate, what type of work did begin?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 251 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample