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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What year was Tolstoy born?
(a) 1828.
(b) 1894.
(c) 1812.
(d) 1903.

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

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

4. What is the name of the book that Marx spent most of his life working on?
(a) The Philosphy of Marx.
(b) Capital.
(c) Communism.
(d) Revolution.

5. What mistress of Shelley's would live to be over eighty and inspire Henry James's story, The Aspern Papers?
(a) Elena Goodwin.
(b) Beth Owen.
(c) Mary Hoppner.
(d) Claire Clairmont.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Hemingway interact with his fellow writers?

2. What vices appealed to Tolstoy the most?

3. How did Hemingway die?

4. Where was Hemingway's home Finca Vigia?

5. Which of the following is not a play penned by Ibsen?

Short Essay Questions

1. What effect did Ernst Hemingway have upon American culture?

2. How did Ibsen interact with women?

3. When Marx wrote poetry as a child, what was the content of his creations?

4. Describe one of Hemingway's wives in appearance and personality.

5. What duty did Percy Bysshe Shelley believe that the enlightened man had to society?

6. What comparison can be made between the views of Emerson and the views of Marx?

7. Describe Rousseau's family life in his youth.

8. Why could it be argued that Karl Marx is the intellectual who has had the most impact on people?

9. How did Ibsen feel about medals and awards?

10. What action did Rousseau take after his second book prompted book burning and resulted in a warrant for his arrest in France?

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