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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 condemned it.
(b) He did not endorse it.
(c) He prophesied it.
(d) He preached it in poor neighborhoods.

2. What were Michelet's other books like after his History of France?
(a) Longer, and more confusing.
(b) Smaller, but more detailed.
(c) Longer, and more detailed.
(d) Smaller, but more visionary.

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

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

5. What does Edmund Wilson say Taine tried to represent in his history?
(a) The pattern on the loom of French nationalist literature.
(b) The underlying spiritual development in French culture.
(c) The reality of the France in which he lived.
(d) The underlying economic laws that regulated French life.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Michelet write after he had become the Conservator of the French Archives?

2. Michelet said that the bourgeoisie __________________.

3. How did Taine examine works of literature?

4. What happened to Michelet's interest in nations?

5. How does Edmund Wilson describe Taine's approach to history?

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