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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 Marx learn about the ideas of Saint-Simon?
(a) From his parents.
(b) In school.
(c) From his neighbor.
(d) In the military.

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

3. Where did the "dialectic" in dialectic materialism come from?
(a) Rousseau.
(b) Diderot.
(c) Emerson.
(d) Hegel.

4. How does a dialectical system progress?
(a) Institutions grow by repressing or appropriating internal movements.
(b) A dominant culture spawns emergent cultures that become dominant in turn.
(c) Systems remain vital by bringing opposing views into dialogue.
(d) The thesis is negated by the antithesis, and the conflict produces a new synthesis.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was the subject of Renan's The Future of Science?

3. How does Edmund Wilson contrast Taine with Renan?

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

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

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