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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Chapters 15-16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To what does Edmund Wilson attribute the need for political action in the early/mid 1800s?
(a) Lack of reform by Friedrich Wilhelm IV.
(b) Riots and strikes.
(c) Droughts.
(d) Centralization of power in the hands of the aristocracy.

2. How did Marx first hear of Engels?
(a) He met him by chance.
(b) He met him through friends.
(c) He read one of his articles.
(d) Engels sought him out for help with an article.

3. What did Michelet say about the French Revolution?
(a) The masses would one day seize the means of production.
(b) The French Revolution was really a story about the development of military technology.
(c) The people were more important than the leaders.
(d) The French Revolution was inseparable from developments in economic theory.

4. What did Marx and Engels combine with the goals of the utopian socialists?
(a) Darwin's theory of evolution.
(b) Goethe's theory of basic building blocks of life.
(c) Hegel's theory of organic development.
(d) Emerson's theory of self-reliance and consolation.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the one condition on which Proudhon agreed to Marx's project?

2. How old was Anatole France at the time of the Commune?

3. According to the the author, what did Babeuf want for the people?

4. When was Jules Michelet teaching?

5. How does a dialectical system progress?

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