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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. Which university did Marx attend?
(a) Weisbaden.
(b) Berlin.
(c) Bonn.
(d) Munich.

2. To what does Edmund Wilson attribute the need for political action in the early/mid 1800s?
(a) Centralization of power in the hands of the aristocracy.
(b) Riots and strikes.
(c) Lack of reform by Friedrich Wilhelm IV.
(d) Droughts.

3. How does Edmund Wilson describe Anatole France?
(a) As a radical.
(b) As a Catholic.
(c) As a racist.
(d) As a reformer.

4. What was Michelet's relationship with socialism?
(a) He preached it in poor neighborhoods.
(b) He condemned it.
(c) He prophesied it.
(d) He did not endorse it.

5. What did Fourier and Owen believe about the relationship between groups and society?
(a) There should be small communes, then larger communities, then regional societies, then a loosely-affiliated confederacy. There should be absolute rule by an all-powerful monarch.
(b) There should be small, limited societies within the greater society.
(c) There should be absolute rule by an all-powerful monarch.
(d) There should be perfect freedom of mobility throughout a society, no matter how large.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Michelet describe about each social class?

2. What organization did Michelet want to create?

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

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

5. What was the subject of Renan's The Future of Science?

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