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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who did Tolstoy correspond with frequently in his old age, offering his opinions on every subject?
(a) Heads of state.
(b) The pope.
(c) Many serfs from his childhood home.
(d) Charles Dickens.

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

3. What was the nickname of Helen Demuth who spent her life working for the Marx family?
(a) Lenchen.
(b) Heddy.
(c) Grava.
(d) Dogga.

4. What is the name of Marx's daughter, who became a mistress of Edward Aveling?
(a) Helen.
(b) Jenny.
(c) Laura.
(d) Eleanor.

5. For which American newspaper did Marx work as a European correspondent for?
(a) The Guardian.
(b) The New York Daily Tribune.
(c) The Washington Post.
(d) The New York Times.

6. How did Hemingway feel about the media, including photo-calls and interviews?
(a) He actively pursued photo-calls and interviews and loved the media.
(b) He was indifferent to the media and would occasionally give interviews or photo-calls, but not frequently.
(c) He was incredibly introverted and avoided the media.
(d) He would give interviews, but would not allow his photo to be taken.

7. What was Hemingway's first published work?
(a) The Old Man and the Sea.
(b) Three Stories and Ten Poems.
(c) The Sun Also Rises.
(d) For Whom the Bell Tolls.

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

9. What was Hemingway's nickname?
(a) Exciting Ernst.
(b) Whisky Hemingway.
(c) Papa Hemingway.
(d) Action man.

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

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

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

13. 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) Harriet Gogg.
(d) Elizabeth Hitchener.

14. What was Ibsen's last statement?
(a) I will sleep peacefully.
(b) No thank you.
(c) I have conquered.
(d) On the contrary.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What lecture given by Ralph Waldo Emerson would be dubbed the American 'intellectual declaration of independence?'

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

3. How many children did Shelley have?

4. How did Hemingway die?

5. What was Shelley's nickname at school?

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