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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. Where were most French artists and thinkers living in the early 1850s?
(a) In exile.
(b) In London.
(c) In Paris.
(d) In Munich.

2. What does Edmund Wilson say about the French artists' and intellectuals' engagement with politics after Louis Bonaparte became Emperor in 1851?
(a) They wanted to create their own republic.
(b) They were not interested.
(c) They wanted to preserve the old feudal system of patronage.
(d) They were deeply committed to fighting for the workers.

3. What value does Edmund Wilson attribute to Michelet's work?
(a) He described history from the perspective of the people living through it.
(b) He told history from the poor people's perspective.
(c) He described the subterranean narrative driving history.
(d) He told the history of nations who lost wars but kept their culture intact.

4. What made Michelet unique?
(a) He saw the interrelatedness of all life.
(b) He wrote in the language of the ordinary man.
(c) He injected his own feelings into his historical narrative.
(d) He described the underlying unity of historical themes.

5. What was Michelet trying to develop when he discovered the Renaissance philosopher?
(a) A new basis for poetry.
(b) A theory of evolution.
(c) A theory of gravity.
(d) A new science of history.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Michelet study in history?

2. What did Taine believe about the French Revolution?

3. What did La Scienza Nuova describe?

4. When was Michelet suspended from his teaching post?

5. What organization did Michelet want to create?

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