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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 describe Ferdinand Lassalle?
(a) As an agent provocateur from the German government.
(b) As the philosopher who was the final straw in the development of socialism.
(c) As the spokesman for the next phase of German socialism.
(d) As a disciple of Marx's.

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

3. What did Michelet say about the French Revolution?
(a) The French Revolution was really a story about the development of military technology.
(b) The French Revolution was inseparable from developments in economic theory.
(c) The people were more important than the leaders.
(d) The masses would one day seize the means of production.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Michelet write as a result of his reading in the Renaissance?

2. What did Marx and Engels combine with the goals of the utopian socialists?

3. What made Michelet unique?

4. What did Jules Michelet teach?

5. How did Lenin differ from the German Marxists?

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