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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. How does Edmund Wilson contrast Taine with Renan?
(a) Edmund Wilson says that Taine was a less important thinker than Renan.
(b) Edmund Wilson saw Taine as concerned with the present.
(c) Edmund Wilson says that Taine is a more religious thinker than Renan.
(d) Edmund Wilson says that Taine was not a serious historian.

2. In what field was Lenin's training?
(a) Military.
(b) Law.
(c) Literature.
(d) Political science.

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

4. How does Edmund Wilson characterize Bakunin's career?
(a) He wrote extensively, but he never participated in a political movement.
(b) He made a name for himself as the actor who would fulfill Marx's prophecies.
(c) He spent his life trying to be part of revolutions in Europe.
(d) He became a close ally of Marx's and was responsible for spreading Marx's ideas internationally.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Owen put his idealistic notions into practice?

2. Where were most French artists and thinkers living in the early 1850s?

3. What position did Marx take in 1842?

4. How does Edmund Wilson describe Marx's study of economics?

5. How is the "Communist Manifesto" described?

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