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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 Michelet study in history?
(a) The theories that unified all history into one narrative.
(b) The personalities that played a role in it.
(c) The range of religious expression.
(d) Technology's influence on the means of production.

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 was not a serious historian.
(d) Edmund Wilson says that Taine is a more religious thinker than Renan.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When was Jules Michelet teaching?

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

4. What organization did Michelet want to create?

5. How does Edmund Wilson describe Anatole France?

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