CHAPTER 35 TEST QUESTIONS MULTIPLE CHOICE 1. The term lost generation was coined by a. Erich Maria Remarque. b. John Steinbeck. c. Karl Barth. d. Sun Yat-sen. e. Gertrude Stein. * (p. 979) 2. The writer whose Decline of the West proposed that European society had entered the final stage of its existence was a. Karl Marx. b. Erich Maria Remarque. c. Oswald Spengler. * d. Werner Heisenberg. e. Karl Barth. (p. 979) 3. In Karl Barth?s Epistle to the Romans, he a. laid the groundwork for the rise of fascism in Italy. b. shocked the Christian world by stressing the importance of material progress above everything else. c. suggested that Jesus? ideas were a precursor to communism.