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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Chapters 7-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happened to Michelet's interest in nations?
(a) It became an interest in individuals.
(b) It became an interest in communities.
(c) It became an interest in religions.
(d) It became an interest in empires.

2. What did Michelet say about the French Revolution?
(a) The French Revolution was inseparable from developments in economic theory.
(b) The masses would one day seize the means of production.
(c) The people were more important than the leaders.
(d) The French Revolution was really a story about the development of military technology.

3. Michelet said that the bourgeoisie __________________.
(a) Own the means of production.
(b) Are not in touch with the people.
(c) Are the majority of people.
(d) Benefit by the oppression of the poor.

4. How does Edmund Wilson contrast Taine with Renan?
(a) Edmund Wilson says that Taine was not a serious historian.
(b) Edmund Wilson says that Taine is a more religious thinker than Renan.
(c) Edmund Wilson says that Taine was a less important thinker than Renan.
(d) Edmund Wilson saw Taine as concerned with the present.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How long did the communist government last in Paris after Michelet had his stroke?

2. What made Michelet unique?

3. What did Michelet write about beginning in 1843?

4. How old was Anatole France at the time of the Commune?

5. How does Michelet define the relations between the classes?

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