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

2. What does Edmund Wilson say about the French artists' and intellectuals' engagement with politics after Louis Bonaparte became Emperor in 1851?
(a) They wanted to create their own republic.
(b) They were not interested.
(c) They were deeply committed to fighting for the workers.
(d) They wanted to preserve the old feudal system of patronage.

3. Edmund Wilson relates that Babeuf worked at __________.
(a) Secularizing France.
(b) Protecting the rich from the Revolution.
(c) Attacking the church during the Revolution.
(d) Promoting the Revolution.

4. Why did Saint-Simon not participate in the French Revolution?
(a) He was too young.
(b) He was in exile.
(c) He considered it destructive.
(d) He was in prison.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Babeuf do when he got out of prison?

2. What does Edmund Wilson say Taine tried to represent in his history?

3. What did Michelet study in history?

4. What was Michelet's relationship with socialism?

5. How does Edmund Wilson describe Anatole France?

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