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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 did La Scienza Nuova describe?
(a) A new approach to scientific inquiry.
(b) A new standard for evidence and experimentation.
(c) A new model for gravity and the evolution of the universe.
(d) A new approach to history.

2. What value does Edmund Wilson attribute to Michelet's work?
(a) He told history from the poor people's perspective.
(b) He described the subterranean narrative driving history.
(c) He told the history of nations who lost wars but kept their culture intact.
(d) He described history from the perspective of the people living through it.

3. Marx began to work with Proudhon, who had written _____________.
(a) Political prophecies.
(b) A book treating property as a form of theft.
(c) A series of essays on capital.
(d) Newspaper articles on the working poor.

4. What did Fourier and Owen believe about the role of government?
(a) It should focus on industry.
(b) It should be founded in church doctrine.
(c) It should be concerned with public morality.
(d) It should be based on its ability to maintain order.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What made Michelet unique?

2. Marx wrote his doctoral thesis on ___________.

3. According to Edmund Wilson, Babeuf saw the center of power during the French Revolution as being ______________.

4. How were Marx' early writings received?

5. What Renaissance thinker did Michelet discover?

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