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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Chapters 11-12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Michelet go during his travels through Europe?
(a) Libraries.
(b) Battlefields.
(c) Churches.
(d) Monasteries.

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

3. What did Michelet write as a result of his reading in the Renaissance?
(a) The Insect.
(b) Introduction to Universal History.
(c) L'Amour.
(d) Roman History.

4. What were Michelet's other books like after his History of France?
(a) Longer, and more confusing.
(b) Smaller, but more detailed.
(c) Longer, and more detailed.
(d) Smaller, but more visionary.

5. What doctrine influenced both Marx and Engels?
(a) Rousseau's doctrine of man's natural rights.
(b) Michelet's doctrine of science.
(c) Hegel's doctrine of historical change.
(d) America's doctrine of democracy.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does Edmund Wilson attribute the need for political action in the early/mid 1800s?

2. According to the author, what does the "dialectic" means in "dialectic materialism"?

3. How does a dialectical system progress?

4. What organization did Michelet want to create?

5. On what point did Marx agree with Engels when he first read his work?

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