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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 do for Michelet?
(a) It gave him a new religious perspective on the origin of the universe.
(b) It gave him a new standard for validating experimental results.
(c) It allowed him to tie all branches of science together.
(d) It let him tell a new and different history of France.

2. According to the author, Michelet's writings would reappear ___________.
(a) In Darwin.
(b) In Freud.
(c) In Marcuse.
(d) In Marx.

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

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

5. Where did Michelet go during his travels through Europe?
(a) Libraries.
(b) Churches.
(c) Battlefields.
(d) Monasteries.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Michelet suspended from his teaching post?

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

3. What value does Edmund Wilson attribute to Michelet's work?

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

5. Where did Michelet begin his work on the French Revolution?

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