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

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

3. According to the author, what ended with the French Revolution?
(a) Religion.
(b) Feudalism.
(c) Communism.
(d) Capitalism.

4. What did Michelet describe about each social class?
(a) Its unique pressures and fears.
(b) Its lack of connection with the earth.
(c) Its unity with the other classes.
(d) Its interdependence with the other classes.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Michelet begin his work on the French Revolution?

2. What did Babeuf do when he got out of prison?

3. What was Taine distancing himself from in his work?

4. How long did the communist government last in Paris after Michelet had his stroke?

5. What was the subject of Renan's The Future of Science?

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