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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the name of the American philosophy graduate who became Russell's secretary?
(a) Philip Wise.
(b) Harold Earkin.
(c) Arthur Koestler.
(d) Ralph Schoenman.

2. What event caused the breakup of Wilson's marriage to Mary McCarthy?
(a) He punched his wife and she left him.
(b) He cauth his wife having an affair and left her.
(c) He was caught having an affair.
(d) His wife unexpectedly died.

3. What friend did Russell give $3000.00 of stock to during WWII?
(a) Lady Constance Malleson.
(b) Williams Stratchey.
(c) T.S. Eliot.
(d) George Santayana.

4. How did Russell feel about war?
(a) He detested war.
(b) He was indifferent to war and did not know much about current events.
(c) He was a war enthusiast.
(d) We do not know his stance on war.

5. What year did Hellman die?
(a) 1989.
(b) 1991.
(c) 1984.
(d) 1976.

6. What year did Wilson die?
(a) 1966.
(b) 1989.
(c) 1972.
(d) 1978.

7. What job did Hellman have with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1929?
(a) She was an editor.
(b) She read scripts.
(c) She was a staff writer.
(d) She was a delivery girl.

8. Why did Hellman owe almost two hundred thousand dollars to the government in 1952?
(a) She had been fined for her political involvement with the Communist Party.
(b) She had neglected to pay income tax for several years.
(c) She had never paid fees associated with her copyrights for her works.
(d) She was fined the amount in alternative for serving jail time for a felony she committed.

9. Who did Brecht leave rights to his works to in his will?
(a) He left different works to four women.
(b) He left everything to his wife.
(c) He left his estate to his illegimate children and left out his wife.
(d) He left half of his oeuvre to the Communist Party and half to his wife.

10. What caused Brecht to leave Germany in 1933?
(a) He was invited to go to Hollywood.
(b) He married a woman from Italy.
(c) Hitler came to power.
(d) He was offered a position in Russia.

11. What was the name of Sartre's longtime mistress?
(a) Gertrude Stein.
(b) Emilie Pleiade.
(c) Louise Malraux.
(d) Simone de Beauvois.

12. What play did Hellman write in the 1960s that was a big success?
(a) Thirty-nine Steps.
(b) Evermore.
(c) Toys in the Attic.
(d) The Seeker.

13. What position did Sartre take after he was released from being a POW?
(a) He was a journalist.
(b) He found a teaching position.
(c) He worked as a mason.
(d) He worked with the Vichy.

14. How many siblings did Connolly have?
(a) He came from a large family of nine.
(b) He was a twin, but had no other siblings.
(c) He had three siblings.
(d) He was an only child.

15. What year was Hellman born?
(a) 1910.
(b) 1899.
(c) 1911.
(d) 1905.

Short Answer Questions

1. What award did Brecht win in 1922 for being the best young dramatist.

2. Where did Sartre do most of his writing?

3. What was the name of George Orwell when he was born?

4. What was Brecht's first Marxist work that was produced in 1930?

5. What enabled Wilson financially to travel to Russia?

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