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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Chapters 5-6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Prosper Enfantin was a follower of whom?
(a) Michelet.
(b) Rousseau.
(c) Fourier and Owens.
(d) Saint-Simon.

2. What did Michelet describe about each social class?
(a) Its lack of connection with the earth.
(b) Its interdependence with the other classes.
(c) Its unity with the other classes.
(d) Its unique pressures and fears.

3. Where did Owen put his idealistic notions into practice?
(a) In Brook Farm.
(b) In Fruitlands.
(c) In Utopia.
(d) In New Lanark.

4. What does Edmund Wilson say Taine tried to represent in his history?
(a) The pattern on the loom of French nationalist literature.
(b) The reality of the France in which he lived.
(c) The underlying spiritual development in French culture.
(d) The underlying economic laws that regulated French life.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Edmund Wilson characterize for Taine the difference between history and science?

2. What did La Scienza Nuova describe?

3. What did Michelet study in history?

4. What was Michelet trying to develop when he discovered the Renaissance philosopher?

5. What was Saint-Simon's theory of history?

(see the answer key)

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