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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 did Hellman use as inspiration for her book, Miss Lonelyhearts?
(a) Information from the classifieds.
(b) Conversations she heard in the stairwell of her apartment.
(c) Guests' letters that she secretly opened.
(d) She stole the material from another writer.

2. What was the name of the progressive school that Russell set up?
(a) Beacon Hill.
(b) Propitious Grove.
(c) Principia.
(d) Liberty School.

3. What year was Bertrand Russell born?
(a) 1872.
(b) 1888.
(c) 1903.
(d) 1876.

4. How many wives did Wilson have?
(a) 2.
(b) 6.
(c) 3.
(d) 4.

5. Where was the ancestral home that Wilson inherited?
(a) In Boston.
(b) In Maine.
(c) In Cape Cod.
(d) In upstate New York.

Short Answer Questions

1. What job did Hellman have with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1929?

2. What year did Sartre die?

3. How tall was Sartre?

4. What year did Wilson die?

5. How did Wilson regard women?

Short Essay Questions

1. What type of relationships did Gollancz have with people from the working class?

2. Briefly describe the life of Dashiell Hammett, Hellman's long time lover.

3. How did Gollancz typically make his agreements with authors?

4. What activity of Russell's resulted in a mock War Crimes Tribunal held in Stockholm?

5. After Wilson's visit to Russia, what were his impressions of the country and people on his return home?

6. What redeeming quality does Johnson specifically note of Brecht?

7. Describe Brecht's childhood.

8. How did Hellman view her father?

9. Why does Johnson describe Russell as being detached from physical reality?

10. What made Sartre famous in 1944?

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