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

2. How does Edmund Wilson characterize Marx's view of Das Kapital?
(a) He says that Marx saw it as a work of art.
(b) He says that Marx saw it as a rebellion against his parents' culture.
(c) He says that Marx saw it as monument to workers' sufferings.
(d) He says that Marx saw it as a new testament in Christian religion.

3. How did Engels characterize classical economic theories?
(a) As mere meditations on capital, without grounds in reality.
(b) As rationalizations for capitalists' greed.
(c) As obsolete relative to new technologies for production.
(d) As mathematical abstractions out of touch with the finances of poverty.

4. What kind of approach toward the study of economics did Marx take?
(a) Pragmatic.
(b) Scientific.
(c) Religious.
(d) Literary.

5. What industrial facility did Engels grow up across the river from?
(a) A coal mine.
(b) A bottling plant.
(c) An iron works.
(d) A textile factory.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Edmund Wilson describe Marx's study of economics?

2. How did Taine examine works of literature?

3. How did Marx first hear of Engels?

4. What does Edmund Wilson say Taine tried to represent in his history?

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

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