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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Chapters 1-2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the subject of Renan's The Future of Science?
(a) Conflict in scientific communities.
(b) Philosophy in economics.
(c) Technology and science in religion.
(d) Morality and faith in society.

2. How does a dialectical system progress?
(a) A dominant culture spawns emergent cultures that become dominant in turn.
(b) Institutions grow by repressing or appropriating internal movements.
(c) Systems remain vital by bringing opposing views into dialogue.
(d) The thesis is negated by the antithesis, and the conflict produces a new synthesis.

3. How did Marx first hear of Engels?
(a) He read one of his articles.
(b) Engels sought him out for help with an article.
(c) He met him through friends.
(d) He met him by chance.

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

5. What was Michelet's relationship with socialism?
(a) He condemned it.
(b) He did not endorse it.
(c) He prophesied it.
(d) He preached it in poor neighborhoods.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Babeuf during the Revolution?

2. What made Michelet unique?

3. How does Edmund Wilson characterize Marx's view of Das Kapital?

4. How does Edmund Wilson characterize for Taine the difference between history and science?

5. What did Marx and Engels combine with the goals of the utopian socialists?

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