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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Chapters 9-10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Edmund Wilson say Taine tried to represent in his history?
(a) The pattern on the loom of French nationalist literature.
(b) The underlying economic laws that regulated French life.
(c) The underlying spiritual development in French culture.
(d) The reality of the France in which he lived.

2. Why did Marx decide to leave Germany?
(a) It was becoming too rigid for his views.
(b) He was wanted for his political activities.
(c) He was always being threatened.
(d) He was broke.

3. What value does Edmund Wilson attribute to Michelet's work?
(a) He described history from the perspective of the people living through it.
(b) He described the subterranean narrative driving history.
(c) He told history from the poor people's perspective.
(d) He told the history of nations who lost wars but kept their culture intact.

4. How were Marx' early writings received?
(a) They incited radical groups to action.
(b) They resulted in his exile from Germany.
(c) They generated interest from the newspaper readers.
(d) They were not much noticed.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did Michelet focus on in his histories?

3. Which university did Marx attend?

4. How did the "Communist Manifesto treat education?

5. Why did Marx break with Proudhon?

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