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

2. What language did Michelet NOT read?
(a) German.
(b) Spanish.
(c) Latin.
(d) Greek.

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

4. What was Taine distancing himself from in his work?
(a) History.
(b) Catholicism.
(c) Romanticism.
(d) Religion.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Edmund Wilson examine from the Middle Ages?

2. What name was ultimately given to the line of thought Michelet developed?

3. What were Michelet's other books like after his History of France?

4. What was Michelet's relationship with Marx and Engels?

5. What Renaissance thinker did Michelet discover?

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