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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Chapters 11-12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do Marx and Engels describe the bourgeoisie?
(a) As the thesis.
(b) As an eternal principle of society.
(c) As the dominant institution.
(d) As the most recent usurpers.

2. According to the author, what does the "dialectic" means in "dialectic materialism"?
(a) Thesis/antithesis/synthesis.
(b) Evolutionary adaptation.
(c) Eternal recurrence.
(d) Transcendental metaphysics.

3. What was Taine distancing himself from in his work?
(a) Catholicism.
(b) Romanticism.
(c) History.
(d) Religion.

4. Michelet said that the bourgeoisie __________________.
(a) Are the majority of people.
(b) Benefit by the oppression of the poor.
(c) Own the means of production.
(d) Are not in touch with the people.

5. What was the subject of Renan's The Future of Science?
(a) Technology and science in religion.
(b) Philosophy in economics.
(c) Conflict in scientific communities.
(d) Morality and faith in society.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Edmund Wilson examine from the Middle Ages?

2. What organization did Michelet want to create?

3. According to Edmund Wilson, Babeuf saw the center of power during the French Revolution as being ______________.

4. What did Engels see as a sign of the workers' poor working conditions?

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

(see the answer key)

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