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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's relationship with Marx and Engels?
(a) They all endorsed class warfare against the rich.
(b) They all worked toward brokering a peace between owners and workers.
(c) They were all persecuted together.
(d) They all signed an international pacifist manifesto.

2. What did Michelet say about the French Revolution?
(a) The people were more important than the leaders.
(b) The French Revolution was really a story about the development of military technology.
(c) The French Revolution was inseparable from developments in economic theory.
(d) The masses would one day seize the means of production.

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

4. How were Fourier and Owen representative of early nineteenth century thinkers?
(a) They supported totalitarian leaders.
(b) They espoused liberal political views.
(c) They wanted a return to law and order.
(d) They did not subscribe to liberal politics.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Edmund Wilson say Taine tried to represent in his history?

2. What did Michelet study in history?

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

4. Why was Michelet suspended from his teaching post?

5. According to the author, what ended with the French Revolution?

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