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

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 wanted to preserve the old feudal system of patronage.
(d) They were deeply committed to fighting for the workers.

3. How is the "Communist Manifesto" described?
(a) A legal defense of a workers' revolution.
(b) The methods a revolutionary party should employ.
(c) A post-revolutionary society.
(d) The tools for bringing a revolution.

4. What name was ultimately given to the line of thought Michelet developed?
(a) Communism.
(b) Re-oriented natural history.
(c) Natural selection.
(d) Capitalism.

5. What language did Michelet NOT read?
(a) Latin.
(b) Spanish.
(c) Greek.
(d) German.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Edmund Wilson describe Anatole France?

2. What in particular appalled Engels about the workers' conditions?

3. Where did Marx grow up?

4. What was Engels converted to in Cologne?

5. What did Michelet focus on in his histories?

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