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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following is not a play penned by Ibsen?
(a) Lady Ingar of Ostraat.
(b) The Priest.
(c) St. John's Night.
(d) The Warrior's Barrow.

2. What year was Shelley born?
(a) 1763.
(b) 1811.
(c) 1792.
(d) 1799.

3. What was the name of Rousseau's dog?
(a) Petit.
(b) Sultan.
(c) Chien.
(d) Fido.

4. When Marx could not find an academic position after receiving his doctorate, what type of work did begin?
(a) He became a librarian.
(b) He because a privat tutor.
(c) He became a journalist.
(d) He became a factory foreman.

5. How did Marx support his family financially through most of his life?
(a) His writings were an immediate success and provided handsomely for the family.
(b) He worked as a railway clerk.
(c) He borrowed money and received legacies from family.
(d) He was supported by the government and received a salary for his work.

6. How did Hemingway die?
(a) He died of natural causes.
(b) He was in a plane accident.
(c) He committed suicide.
(d) He drowned while deep sea fishing.

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

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

9. What vocation did Rousseau's father have?
(a) He was a watchmaker.
(b) He was a politician.
(c) He was a writer.
(d) He was born an aristocrat.

10. How many children did Rousseau have with his wife?
(a) 5.
(b) 8.
(c) 10.
(d) 2.

11. What year did Tolstoy die?
(a) 1899.
(b) 1922.
(c) 1910.
(d) 1867.

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

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

14. What young woman was a laundress and agreed to become Rousseau's mistress on a permanent basis?
(a) Joan MacDonald.
(b) Madame d'Epinay.
(c) Madame Melchior.
(d) Therese Levasseur.

15. what was the name of Hemingway's second wife?
(a) Pauline Pfeiffer.
(b) Dorothy Smurthwaite.
(c) Mary Welsh.
(d) Hadley Richardson.

Short Answer Questions

1. What occupation did Hemingway begin his career with in 1921?

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

3. How many drafts of War and Peace did Tolstoy write?

4. What was Shelley's nickname at school?

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

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