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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What ancient languages did Shelley attain great fluency in at Eton?
(a) Greek and Hebrew.
(b) Latin and Egyptian.
(c) Latin and Greek.
(d) Hebrew and Sanskrit.

2. What year did Orwell die?
(a) 1945.
(b) 1955.
(c) 1961.
(d) 1950.

3. What lecture given by Ralph Waldo Emerson would be dubbed the American 'intellectual declaration of independence?'
(a) Human Life.
(b) Nature.
(c) The Times.
(d) The American Scholar.

4. What was the name of Tolstoy's youngest daughter that revered him as his disciple?
(a) Alexandra.
(b) Sonya.
(c) Tanya.
(d) Masha.

5. What country was Ibsen born in?
(a) Germany.
(b) Sweden.
(c) Switzerland.
(d) Norway.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many siblings did Sartre have?

2. How did Marx's daughter Laura die?

3. How did Hemingway interact with his fellow writers?

4. What was the name of Hellman's play that dealt with strikes and was a disaster?

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

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