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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 was Michelet's relationship with socialism?
(a) He preached it in poor neighborhoods.
(b) He prophesied it.
(c) He did not endorse it.
(d) He condemned it.

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

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

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 masses would one day seize the means of production.
(c) The French Revolution was inseparable from developments in economic theory.
(d) The people were more important than the leaders.

5. What did Michelet write as a result of his reading in the Renaissance?
(a) The Insect.
(b) L'Amour.
(c) Roman History.
(d) Introduction to Universal History.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Michelet suspended from his teaching post?

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

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

4. What was Taine distancing himself from in his work?

5. What language did Michelet NOT read?

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