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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 Taine believe about the French Revolution?
(a) It would end in totalitarianism.
(b) It was evidence of corrections taking place.
(c) It was evidence of a workers' state coming into existence.
(d) It was the beginning of the Communist Revolution.

2. What was Taine distancing himself from in his work?
(a) Religion.
(b) History.
(c) Catholicism.
(d) Romanticism.

3. How does Marx define labor?
(a) As a commodity.
(b) As just one agent of the earth's fulfillment in economic activity.
(c) As the source of all value.
(d) As a force of nature.

4. According to Marx, what kind of labor do machines contain?
(a) Frozen labor.
(b) Magnified labor.
(c) Divine labor.
(d) Eternally renewed labor.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Anatole France at the time of the Commune?

2. Who converted Engels in Cologne?

3. How does Edmund Wilson contrast Taine with Renan?

4. How did Taine examine works of literature?

5. What in particular appalled Engels about the workers' conditions?

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