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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Chapters 5-6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Edmund Wilson, Saint-Simon represented______________.
(a) The poor.
(b) The ancien regime.
(c) The bourgeoisie.
(d) The new kind of writer.

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

3. According to the author, the success of Owen's community depended on ______________.
(a) Strict enforcement of laws.
(b) Owen's presence.
(c) Owen's subsidies.
(d) Inflated prices for coal.

4. How old was Babeuf during the Revolution?
(a) Thirty-four.
(b) Twenty-nine.
(c) Thirty-seven.
(d) Forty-six.

5. On what point did Marx agree with Engels when he first read his work?
(a) History would culminate in a workers' state.
(b) German philosophy didn't provide social principles.
(c) Economics was crippled by being divorced from morality and religion.
(d) One spirit undergirded all of history's development.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Edmund Wilson characterize for Taine the difference between history and science?

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

3. What was Marx's passion while he was studying law?

4. Why did Marx decide to leave Germany?

5. Where did Marx learn about the ideas of Saint-Simon?

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