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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. Where were most French artists and thinkers living in the early 1850s?
(a) In exile.
(b) In London.
(c) In Munich.
(d) In Paris.

2. What work did Engels have to finish when Marx died?
(a) Explaining Marx's theory to the socialists.
(b) Defining the master-slave dialectic.
(c) "The Condition of the Working Class in England."
(d) "Das Kapital."

3. What does Marx say a society based on class destroys?
(a) Tradition.
(b) The relationship between men.
(c) Working class heroes.
(d) A worker's individuality.

4. How does Edmund Wilson characterize for Taine the difference between history and science?
(a) There was no experimenting in history.
(b) There was no perspective to observe outside of historical events.
(c) There was no way to measure quantities in history.
(d) There was no certainty about history.

5. How does Edmund Wilson describe Taine's approach to history?
(a) Spiritual.
(b) Scientific.
(c) Biographical.
(d) Journalistic.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Engels converted to in Cologne?

2. What industrial facility did Engels grow up across the river from?

3. What was Taine distancing himself from in his work?

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

5. How did Marx first hear of Engels?

(see the answer key)

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