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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. How does Edmund Wilson contrast Taine with Renan?
(a) Edmund Wilson says that Taine is a more religious 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 was a less important thinker than Renan.

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

3. What did Michelet study in history?
(a) The theories that unified all history into one narrative.
(b) The personalities that played a role in it.
(c) The range of religious expression.
(d) Technology's influence on the means of production.

4. What was Saint-Simon's theory of history?
(a) A seething chaos run by the powerful.
(b) Waves of equilibrium and breakdown.
(c) A punctuated equilibrium.
(d) A cycle of development and destruction.

5. According to the author, Saint-Simon viewed society's goals as changing ______________.
(a) From communal power to individual power.
(b) From community and church to production and consumption.
(c) From war for conquest to war for annihilation.
(d) From production and consumption to war and conquest.

Short Answer Questions

1. Marx wrote his doctoral thesis on ___________.

2. What language did Michelet NOT read?

3. The "Communist Manifesto" by Marx and Engel wanted to end ____________.

4. What did Michelet say about the French Revolution?

5. According to Edmund Wilson, Babeuf saw the center of power during the French Revolution as being ______________.

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