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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Chapters 7-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Edmund Wilson contrast Taine with Renan?
(a) Edmund Wilson saw Taine as concerned with the present.
(b) Edmund Wilson says that Taine was a less important thinker than Renan.
(c) Edmund Wilson says that Taine is a more religious thinker than Renan.
(d) Edmund Wilson says that Taine was not a serious historian.

3. What organization did Michelet want to create?
(a) A European army to keep workers in line.
(b) An armed peace league.
(c) A congress of industrial leaders.
(d) An international monetary fund.

4. What did Jules Michelet teach?
(a) Astronomy.
(b) Philosophy and history.
(c) Biology and natural sciences.
(d) Religion.

5. How does Edmund Wilson describe Anatole France?
(a) As a Catholic.
(b) As a radical.
(c) As a racist.
(d) As a reformer.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was Michelet suspended from his teaching post?

2. Michelet said that the bourgeoisie __________________.

3. What does Edmund Wilson say Taine tried to represent in his history?

4. According to the author, Michelet's writings would reappear ___________.

5. What did Taine study after 1871, when the Commune was established?

(see the answer key)

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