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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. Marx wrote his doctoral thesis on ___________.
(a) Saint-Simon.
(b) Rousseau.
(c) Hegel.
(d) Michelet.

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

3. To what does Edmund Wilson attribute the need for political action in the early/mid 1800s?
(a) Centralization of power in the hands of the aristocracy.
(b) Droughts.
(c) Lack of reform by Friedrich Wilhelm IV.
(d) Riots and strikes.

4. How did the "Communist Manifesto treat education?
(a) It should be free.
(b) It should be apolitical.
(c) It should proselytize for Communism.
(d) It should be political.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Jules Michelet teach?

2. What affect did Lassalle have on the relationship between Marx and Engels?

3. According to the author, what was the result of the French Revolution?

4. How does Edmund Wilson describe Taine's approach to history?

5. What did Fourier and Owen believe about the role of government?

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