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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Chapters 15-16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of approach toward the study of economics did Marx take?
(a) Scientific.
(b) Literary.
(c) Religious.
(d) Pragmatic.

2. How does Edmund Wilson characterize for Taine the difference between history and science?
(a) There was no certainty about history.
(b) There was no perspective to observe outside of historical events.
(c) There was no experimenting in history.
(d) There was no way to measure quantities in history.

3. What did Taine believe about the French Revolution?
(a) It was the beginning of the Communist Revolution.
(b) It was evidence of corrections taking place.
(c) It was evidence of a workers' state coming into existence.
(d) It would end in totalitarianism.

4. How does Edmund Wilson describe Anatole France?
(a) As a radical.
(b) As a Catholic.
(c) As a racist.
(d) As a reformer.

5. What does Edmund Wilson say about the French artists' and intellectuals' engagement with politics after Louis Bonaparte became Emperor in 1851?
(a) They wanted to create their own republic.
(b) They were not interested.
(c) They wanted to preserve the old feudal system of patronage.
(d) They were deeply committed to fighting for the workers.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Taine examine works of literature?

2. How does Marx distinguish between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie in terms of morality?

3. How does Marx define labor?

4. Marx's study of economics contains a discrepancy because he included _______.

5. What in particular appalled Engels about the workers' conditions?

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