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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Marx learn about the ideas of Saint-Simon?
(a) From his neighbor.
(b) In school.
(c) In the military.
(d) From his parents.

2. What did La Scienza Nuova do for Michelet?
(a) It gave him a new standard for validating experimental results.
(b) It allowed him to tie all branches of science together.
(c) It let him tell a new and different history of France.
(d) It gave him a new religious perspective on the origin of the universe.

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

4. Michelet believed the history of the 19th century was summed up by _________.
(a) Religion, technology, and militarism.
(b) Capitalism, militarism, and colonialism.
(c) Industrialism, militarism, and socialism.
(d) Expansionism, militarism, and scientific progress.

5. What character trait does Edmund Wilson see in both Fourier and Owen?
(a) Abhorrence for cruelty.
(b) Intolerance for weakness.
(c) Admiration for technology.
(d) Totalitarianism.

6. How old was Anatole France at the time of the Commune?
(a) Twenty-one.
(b) Twenty-seven.
(c) Thirty-seven.
(d) Fifty-one.

7. When was Michelet suspended from his teaching post?
(a) 1850.
(b) 1855.
(c) 1860.
(d) 1848.

8. What organization did Michelet want to create?
(a) An international monetary fund.
(b) An armed peace league.
(c) A European army to keep workers in line.
(d) A congress of industrial leaders.

9. How were Fourier and Owen representative of early nineteenth century thinkers?
(a) They supported totalitarian leaders.
(b) They wanted a return to law and order.
(c) They did not subscribe to liberal politics.
(d) They espoused liberal political views.

10. Which university did Marx attend?
(a) Weisbaden.
(b) Munich.
(c) Berlin.
(d) Bonn.

11. When did Marx express the desire to help humanity?
(a) In his graduate thesis.
(b) In elementary school essays.
(c) In his political activism.
(d) In the final exams for high school.

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

13. According to the author, what was the result of the French Revolution?
(a) Private property was abolished in many places.
(b) The people acquired vast political power.
(c) Wealth was concentrated in a few hands.
(d) The church acquired large amounts of land.

14. When was Jules Michelet teaching?
(a) The 1880s.
(b) The 1820s.
(c) The 1920s.
(d) The 1850s.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Marx's passion while he was studying law?

2. What was the subject of Renan's The Future of Science?

3. What made Michelet unique?

4. Prosper Enfantin was a follower of whom?

5. What did Taine study after 1871, when the Commune was established?

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