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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. How does Edmund Wilson describe Taine's approach to history?
(a) Scientific.
(b) Journalistic.
(c) Spiritual.
(d) Biographical.

2. Why was Michelet suspended from his teaching post?
(a) Treason.
(b) Radicalism.
(c) Obscenity.
(d) Impropriety.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the the author, what did Babeuf want for the people?

2. Why did Marx decide to leave Germany?

3. What did Fourier and Owen believe about the relationship between groups and society?

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

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

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