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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Chapters 3-4.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What Renaissance thinker did Michelet discover?
(a) Da Vinci.
(b) Shakespeare.
(c) Vico.
(d) Hobbes.

3. How does Michelet define the relations between the classes?
(a) Based on greed.
(b) Based on envy of the class above.
(c) Based on the ability to seize power.
(d) Based on fear of the class below.

4. What did Fourier and Owen believed about wealth?
(a) It should be kept by the strong and the powerful.
(b) It should be equally distributed to all.
(c) It should be distributed too all based on a formula.
(d) It should be given to the poor and weak.

5. Saint-Simon thought society should be based on ____________.
(a) Morality.
(b) Power.
(c) Merit.
(d) Compassion.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did Fourier and Owen believe about the role of government?

3. How does Edmund Wilson describe Anatole France?

4. What did Michelet say about the French Revolution?

5. What was Michelet's relationship with socialism?

(see the answer key)

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