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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. Why did Marx decide to leave Germany?
(a) He was wanted for his political activities.
(b) It was becoming too rigid for his views.
(c) He was always being threatened.
(d) He was broke.

2. How does Edmund Wilson contrast Taine with Renan?
(a) Edmund Wilson says that Taine was a less important thinker than Renan.
(b) Edmund Wilson says that Taine is a more religious thinker than Renan.
(c) Edmund Wilson saw Taine as concerned with the present.
(d) Edmund Wilson says that Taine was not a serious historian.

3. Marx wrote his doctoral thesis on ___________.
(a) Hegel.
(b) Michelet.
(c) Rousseau.
(d) Saint-Simon.

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

5. What did La Scienza Nuova do for Michelet?
(a) It let him tell a new and different history of France.
(b) It gave him a new religious perspective on the origin of the universe.
(c) It gave him a new standard for validating experimental results.
(d) It allowed him to tie all branches of science together.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Edmund Wilson, Saint-Simon represented______________.

2. According to the author, what happened to the bourgeoisie after the French Revolution?

3. What did Jules Michelet teach?

4. What was Michelet's relationship with Marx and Engels?

5. What French philosopher influenced both Fourier and Owen?

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