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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 do Marx and Engels describe the proletariat?
(a) As the emergent institution.
(b) As the next usurpers.
(c) As an eternal principle of society.
(d) As the anti-thesis.

2. What did Michelet focus on in his histories?
(a) Traditions.
(b) Paradoxes.
(c) Laws.
(d) Customs.

3. What happened to Michelet's interest in nations?
(a) It became an interest in empires.
(b) It became an interest in individuals.
(c) It became an interest in communities.
(d) It became an interest in religions.

4. What name was ultimately given to the line of thought Michelet developed?
(a) Natural selection.
(b) Capitalism.
(c) Communism.
(d) Re-oriented natural history.

5. When was Jules Michelet teaching?
(a) The 1920s.
(b) The 1880s.
(c) The 1820s.
(d) The 1850s.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Lassalle's relationship with the communists, according to Edmund Wilson's account?

2. How did Marx first hear of Engels?

3. What did La Scienza Nuova examine?

4. What did La Scienza Nuova do for Michelet?

5. Where did Marx learn about the ideas of Saint-Simon?

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