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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Chapters 5-6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What value does Edmund Wilson attribute to Michelet's work?
(a) He told the history of nations who lost wars but kept their culture intact.
(b) He told history from the poor people's perspective.
(c) He described history from the perspective of the people living through it.
(d) He described the subterranean narrative driving history.

2. What made Michelet unique?
(a) He injected his own feelings into his historical narrative.
(b) He described the underlying unity of historical themes.
(c) He wrote in the language of the ordinary man.
(d) He saw the interrelatedness of all life.

3. What did Michelet write as a result of his reading in the Renaissance?
(a) The Insect.
(b) L'Amour.
(c) Roman History.
(d) Introduction to Universal History.

4. Why was Michelet suspended from his teaching post?
(a) Treason.
(b) Obscenity.
(c) Radicalism.
(d) Impropriety.

5. What did La Scienza Nuova describe?
(a) A new standard for evidence and experimentation.
(b) A new approach to history.
(c) A new model for gravity and the evolution of the universe.
(d) A new approach to scientific inquiry.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were Michelet's other books like after his History of France?

2. What was Michelet's relationship with Marx and Engels?

3. Michelet said that the bourgeoisie __________________.

4. What name was ultimately given to the line of thought Michelet developed?

5. What was the subject of Renan's The Future of Science?

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