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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. Where did Michelet go during his travels through Europe?
(a) Battlefields.
(b) Churches.
(c) Monasteries.
(d) Libraries.

2. What value does Edmund Wilson attribute to Michelet's work?
(a) He described the subterranean narrative driving history.
(b) He described history from the perspective of the people living through it.
(c) He told the history of nations who lost wars but kept their culture intact.
(d) He told history from the poor people's perspective.

3. What Renaissance thinker did Michelet discover?
(a) Da Vinci.
(b) Shakespeare.
(c) Hobbes.
(d) Vico.

4. How long did the communist government last in Paris after Michelet had his stroke?
(a) Two and a half months.
(b) Five months.
(c) Ten months.
(d) Five years.

5. What did Michelet study in history?
(a) The theories that unified all history into one narrative.
(b) Technology's influence on the means of production.
(c) The personalities that played a role in it.
(d) The range of religious expression.

Short Answer Questions

1. What position did Marx take in 1842?

2. What thinker did Marx return to after he broke with Proudhon?

3. According to the author, what was the result of the French Revolution?

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

5. What did Marx and Engels combine with the goals of the utopian socialists?

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