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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 Marx's relationship with Engels after the 1850s?
(a) Engels sent Marx money because he was broke.
(b) They started a commune with the proceeds of their shared writing.
(c) They quarreled and split.
(d) Marx turned Engels' ideas into books.

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

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

4. What did Engels see as a sign of the workers' poor working conditions?
(a) Their lack of gaiety.
(b) Their productivity.
(c) Their religiousness.
(d) Their poverty.

5. What Renaissance thinker did Michelet discover?
(a) Vico.
(b) Shakespeare.
(c) Da Vinci.
(d) Hobbes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did La Scienza Nuova describe?

2. Where was Engels working while he and Marx were writing articles together?

3. What language did Michelet NOT read?

4. According to the the author, what did Babeuf want for the people?

5. What did Michelet study in history?

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