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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 Saint-Simon's theory of history?
(a) A punctuated equilibrium.
(b) A seething chaos run by the powerful.
(c) Waves of equilibrium and breakdown.
(d) A cycle of development and destruction.

2. What name was ultimately given to the line of thought Michelet developed?
(a) Natural selection.
(b) Re-oriented natural history.
(c) Communism.
(d) Capitalism.

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

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

5. What character trait does Edmund Wilson see in both Fourier and Owen?
(a) Admiration for technology.
(b) Totalitarianism.
(c) Intolerance for weakness.
(d) Abhorrence for cruelty.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Michelet write as a result of his reading in the Renaissance?

2. What did Taine study after 1871, when the Commune was established?

3. What did Taine believe about the French Revolution?

4. What value does Edmund Wilson attribute to Michelet's work?

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

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