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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did Jules Michelet teach?
(a) Astronomy.
(b) Biology and natural sciences.
(c) Religion.
(d) Philosophy and history.

3. What did Michelet focus on in his histories?
(a) Paradoxes.
(b) Traditions.
(c) Customs.
(d) Laws.

4. Why was Marx placed under police surveillance at the university?
(a) For debt.
(b) For subverting the university.
(c) For womanizing.
(d) For subversive ideas.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Saint-Simon thought society should be based on ____________.

2. According to the author, Michelet's writings would reappear ___________.

3. Where did Owen put his idealistic notions into practice?

4. What did Michelet write as a result of his reading in the Renaissance?

5. What value does Edmund Wilson attribute to Michelet's work?

Short Essay Questions

1. What reforms did Saint-Simon want to institute?

2. Describe Marx's time as the editor of a Cologne newspaper.

3. Describe the evolution of Marx's philosophical thinking.

4. Describe Marx's education and upbringing.

5. In what way did Taine distinguish between history and science?

6. Describe Anatole France's career.

7. What does Edmund Wilson describe as the result of the French Revolution?

8. Describe Michelet's methods?

9. What does Edmund Wilson say about communes in America?

10. What work did Michelet do after he had read Vico, and how did Vico's influence come through in that work?

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