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

2. According to the author, what ended with the French Revolution?
(a) Feudalism.
(b) Religion.
(c) Capitalism.
(d) Communism.

3. What did Michelet focus on in his histories?
(a) Paradoxes.
(b) Traditions.
(c) Laws.
(d) Customs.

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

5. What did La Scienza Nuova examine?
(a) The factors that led to the development of societies.
(b) The inevitable lifecycle of imperial cultures.
(c) The factors that allowed republican nations to turn into empires.
(d) The factors that determined which species would survive.

Short Answer Questions

1. What character trait does Edmund Wilson see in both Fourier and Owen?

2. When did Marx express the desire to help humanity?

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

4. To what does Edmund Wilson attribute the need for political action in the early/mid 1800s?

5. What did Michelet describe about each social class?

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