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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. Michelet believed the history of the 19th century was summed up by _________.
(a) Religion, technology, and militarism.
(b) Industrialism, militarism, and socialism.
(c) Expansionism, militarism, and scientific progress.
(d) Capitalism, militarism, and colonialism.

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

3. What philosopher did Engels become interested in when he was in Berlin?
(a) Rousseau.
(b) Voltaire.
(c) Locke.
(d) Hegel.

4. When did Marx express the desire to help humanity?
(a) In elementary school essays.
(b) In his political activism.
(c) In the final exams for high school.
(d) In his graduate thesis.

5. When did Lenin begin to read Marx?
(a) In high school.
(b) At the University of Berlin.
(c) At the University of Kazan.
(d) After being expelled from the University of Kazan.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Edmund Wilson characterize for Taine the difference between history and science?

2. Which university did Marx attend?

3. What industrial facility did Engels grow up across the river from?

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

5. What was Taine distancing himself from in his work?

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