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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) Droughts.
(c) Centralization of power in the hands of the aristocracy.
(d) Riots and strikes.

2. What was the one condition on which Proudhon agreed to Marx's project?
(a) It would not result in political action.
(b) It would not become a religious doctrine.
(c) It would not put them at risk of being arrested.
(d) It would bring about the revolution.

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

4. How old was Babeuf during the Revolution?
(a) Thirty-seven.
(b) Twenty-nine.
(c) Forty-six.
(d) Thirty-four.

5. What was Michelet's relationship with socialism?
(a) He prophesied it.
(b) He preached it in poor neighborhoods.
(c) He did not endorse it.
(d) He condemned it.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Edmund Wilson describe Anatole France?

3. How did Engels characterize classical economic theories?

4. When was Michelet suspended from his teaching post?

5. What does Edmund Wilson say about the French artists' and intellectuals' engagement with politics after Louis Bonaparte became Emperor in 1851?

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