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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What poem did Shelley dedicate to his first wife?
(a) Queen Mab.
(b) The Bride of Abydos.
(c) Horrid Mysteries.
(d) The Cenci.

3. What was the name of Hemingway's first wife?
(a) Katie Passos.
(b) Hadley Richardson.
(c) Bryn Mawr.
(d) Martha Gellhorn.

4. What was the name of Tolstoy's wife?
(a) Aksinya.
(b) Sonya.
(c) Anna.
(d) Valerya.

5. What movement did Ralph Waldo Emerson found?
(a) Enviornmentalism.
(b) Transcendentalism.
(c) Naturalism.
(d) New Nationalism.

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

7. Who was the first great nineteenth century American intellectual?
(a) Gertrude Stein.
(b) Mark Twain.
(c) Ralph Waldo Emerson.
(d) Nathanial Hawthorne.

8. How did Ibsen pay for his university education?
(a) By waiting tables.
(b) He worked as a grammar tutor.
(c) He worked at the fish docks.
(d) By writing plays.

9. What is the name of the partner, with whom Marx co-authored many of his works?
(a) Hegel.
(b) Proudhon.
(c) Kriege.
(d) Engels.

10. What political approach did Hemingway take in his perspective of the Spanish Civil War?
(a) He supported the Fascist perspective.
(b) He wrote with an emphasis on Capitalism.
(c) He wrote from the Communist Party line.
(d) He wrote with a republican agenda.

11. What vices appealed to Tolstoy the most?
(a) Lying and forging.
(b) Drinking and hunting.
(c) Drugs and alcohol.
(d) Women and gambling.

12. What type of relationship did Hemingway have with his mother?
(a) The had a mutual indifference towards each other.
(b) He respected her, but they often quarreled.
(c) He hated her.
(d) He idolized her.

13. 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.

14. How did Hemingway regard organized religion?
(a) He identified Christianity with male honor.
(b) He had no opinion on religion.
(c) He believed in personal worship rather than organized religion.
(d) He saw it as a menace to human happiness.

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

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. Why did Ibsen claim he liked to be around young women?

3. How did Shelley die?

4. What University did Marx receive his doctorate from?

5. What occupation did Hemingway serve latter part of the Great War?

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