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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. To what does Edmund Wilson attribute the need for political action in the early/mid 1800s?
(a) Centralization of power in the hands of the aristocracy.
(b) Riots and strikes.
(c) Lack of reform by Friedrich Wilhelm IV.
(d) Droughts.

2. On what point did Marx agree with Engels when he first read his work?
(a) One spirit undergirded all of history's development.
(b) History would culminate in a workers' state.
(c) Economics was crippled by being divorced from morality and religion.
(d) German philosophy didn't provide social principles.

3. How did Marx review Proudhon's book on private property?
(a) With a glowing, appreciative review.
(b) With a book of his own.
(c) With a hagiography.
(d) With a short, dismissive review.

4. Where did Michelet begin his work on the French Revolution?
(a) With Locke and Rousseau.
(b) With feudalism.
(c) With the Rights of Man.
(d) With the American Revolution.

5. Marx began to work with Proudhon, who had written _____________.
(a) A series of essays on capital.
(b) Political prophecies.
(c) Newspaper articles on the working poor.
(d) A book treating property as a form of theft.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Edmund Wilson say about the French artists' and intellectuals' engagement with politics after Louis Bonaparte became Emperor in 1851?

2. How did the "Communist Manifesto treat education?

3. Edmund Wilson relates that Babeuf worked at __________.

4. When was Michelet suspended from his teaching post?

5. What language did Michelet NOT read?

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