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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 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 wanted to create their own republic.
(c) They were not interested.
(d) They wanted to preserve the old feudal system of patronage.

2. What does Marx say a society based on class prevents?
(a) Abuses of workers' rights.
(b) Solidarity between workers from different nations.
(c) A recognition of universal rights.
(d) Class warfare.

3. How does Edmund Wilson contrast Taine with Renan?
(a) Edmund Wilson says that Taine was a less important thinker than Renan.
(b) Edmund Wilson saw Taine as concerned with the present.
(c) Edmund Wilson says that Taine was not a serious historian.
(d) Edmund Wilson says that Taine is a more religious thinker than Renan.

4. What did Marx and Engels combine with the goals of the utopian socialists?
(a) Hegel's theory of organic development.
(b) Emerson's theory of self-reliance and consolation.
(c) Goethe's theory of basic building blocks of life.
(d) Darwin's theory of evolution.

5. What did Taine study after 1871, when the Commune was established?
(a) Politics and economics.
(b) Philosophy and language.
(c) Mysticism and spirituality.
(d) Science and religion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did "The Condition of the Working Class in England" do for Marx?

2. How did Engels characterize classical economic theories?

3. What did Engels see as a sign of the workers' poor working conditions?

4. Marx's study of economics contains a discrepancy because he included _______.

5. How does Edmund Wilson describe Anatole France?

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