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

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

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

4. What Renaissance thinker did Michelet discover?
(a) Shakespeare.
(b) Hobbes.
(c) Da Vinci.
(d) Vico.

5. What did Michelet describe about each social class?
(a) Its interdependence with the other classes.
(b) Its unique pressures and fears.
(c) Its lack of connection with the earth.
(d) Its unity with the other classes.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What did Michelet study in history?

4. What was Michelet trying to develop when he discovered the Renaissance philosopher?

5. What did Michelet write after he had become the Conservator of the French Archives?

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