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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What ancient languages did Shelley attain great fluency in at Eton?

2. How many children did Shelley have?

3. What is the name of the partner, with whom Marx co-authored many of his works?

4. What poem did Shelley dedicate to his first wife?

5. What movement did Ralph Waldo Emerson found?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Tolstoy view women?

2. Describe the typical arc of Rousseau's friendships.

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

4. Why are all of Ibsen's works so different?

5. What addiction did Hemingway suffer from most of his life?

6. How was Emerson viewed in his time?

7. Hemingway was particularly prone to accidents - what were some of the most severe?

8. Describe Harriet Shelley.

9. How did Ibsen interact with women?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

A recurrent theme in Intellectuals is the idea of egotism and vanity and how it motivated several intellectuals and affected their self-awareness. Discuss how Johnson draw attention to this theme through individual intellectuals.

Essay Topic 2

What was Johnson's definition of an intellectual? What was his criteria for one and how to the people mentioned in the book match with this criteria?

Essay Topic 3

Intellectuals suggests that Rousseau is credited with affecting thinking in five areas. What are those areas, how did Rousseau change the way they were viewed in society and how have other intellectuals discussed in the book been influenced by them?

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