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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 did La Scienza Nuova examine?
(a) The inevitable lifecycle of imperial cultures.
(b) The factors that led to the development of societies.
(c) The factors that determined which species would survive.
(d) The factors that allowed republican nations to turn into empires.

2. What did Michelet write after he had become the Conservator of the French Archives?
(a) Roman History.
(b) Introduction to Universal History.
(c) History of the Middle Ages.
(d) The Insect.

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

4. What were Michelet's other books like after his History of France?
(a) Smaller, but more visionary.
(b) Longer, and more detailed.
(c) Longer, and more confusing.
(d) Smaller, but more detailed.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What organization did Michelet want to create?

2. What was Michelet's relationship with socialism?

3. What did Michelet study in history?

4. What did La Scienza Nuova do for Michelet?

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

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