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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 color was Wilson's hair?
(a) Brown.
(b) Blonde.
(c) Red.
(d) Black.

2. What year did Russell die?
(a) 1970.
(b) 1942.
(c) 1980.
(d) 1951.

3. What subject did Gollancz teach at Repton?
(a) Classics.
(b) History.
(c) Mathematics.
(d) French.

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

5. 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) She stole the material from another writer.
(d) Guests' letters that she secretly opened.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of Connolly's wife?

2. What honor did Gollancz receive in 1945?

3. How tall was Sartre?

4. What year was Hellman born?

5. What was the name of the intellectual who Johnson claimed attempted to legitimize personal violence?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Johnson believe that Gollancz is an important intellectual if he did not give birth to a salient idea himself?

2. What made Sartre famous in 1944?

3. How did Sartre feel towards America?

4. What did Orwell think of fellow intellectuals in comparison to the poor?

5. Why did Bertrand Russell write so much?

6. How does Johnson describe Wilson's writings?

7. Describe Orwell's appearance.

8. What type of relationship did Wilson have with other writers?

9. How did Hellman view her mother?

10. According to Johnson, what did Orwell believe about what force had the power to shape the world.

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