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

2. What did Taine study after 1871, when the Commune was established?
(a) Philosophy and language.
(b) Mysticism and spirituality.
(c) Science and religion.
(d) Politics and economics.

3. How does Marx define labor?
(a) As a force of nature.
(b) As just one agent of the earth's fulfillment in economic activity.
(c) As a commodity.
(d) As the source of all value.

4. Where did Marx learn about the ideas of Saint-Simon?
(a) In school.
(b) In the military.
(c) From his neighbor.
(d) From his parents.

5. What organization did Lassalle establish?
(a) The Syndicate of Technical Workers and Artists.
(b) International Working Men's Association.
(c) The General Union of German Workers.
(d) The German Communist Party.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Fourier and Owen want to administer education in their ideal society?

2. According to Edmund Wilson's account, why didn't Marx and Engels consider Russia as a site of the first revolution?

3. When was Jules Michelet teaching?

4. What does Edmund Wilson examine from the Middle Ages?

5. What organization did Michelet want to create?

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