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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 does Edmund Wilson examine from the Middle Ages?
(a) The development of a notion of humanity as a transcendent unity.
(b) The development of a theory of history.
(c) The emergence of the idea of nations.
(d) The emergence of the notion that man could improve himself.

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

3. What was the subject of Renan's The Future of Science?
(a) Morality and faith in society.
(b) Philosophy in economics.
(c) Technology and science in religion.
(d) Conflict in scientific communities.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Michelet write about beginning in 1843?

2. Michelet believed the history of the 19th century was summed up by _________.

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

4. When was Jules Michelet teaching?

5. According to the author, what happened to the bourgeoisie after the French Revolution?

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