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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Chapter 1-2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Edmund Wilson examine from the Middle Ages?
(a) The emergence of the idea of nations.
(b) The emergence of the notion that man could improve himself.
(c) The development of a notion of humanity as a transcendent unity.
(d) The development of a theory of history.

2. What did La Scienza Nuova describe?
(a) A new standard for evidence and experimentation.
(b) A new approach to scientific inquiry.
(c) A new approach to history.
(d) A new model for gravity and the evolution of the universe.

3. When was Michelet suspended from his teaching post?
(a) 1850.
(b) 1860.
(c) 1848.
(d) 1855.

4. What were Michelet's other books like after his History of France?
(a) Smaller, but more visionary.
(b) Longer, and more confusing.
(c) Smaller, but more detailed.
(d) Longer, and more detailed.

5. How does Edmund Wilson describe Anatole France?
(a) As a racist.
(b) As a reformer.
(c) As a Catholic.
(d) As a radical.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Saint-Simon's theory of history?

2. According to Edmund Wilson, Saint-Simon represented______________.

3. Saint-Simon thought society should be based on ____________.

4. What value does Edmund Wilson attribute to Michelet's work?

5. How did Taine examine works of literature?

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