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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Chapters 5-6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Michelet begin his work on the French Revolution?
(a) With Locke and Rousseau.
(b) With the Rights of Man.
(c) With feudalism.
(d) With the American Revolution.

2. What was Lassalle's relationship with the communists, according to Edmund Wilson's account?
(a) He was not accepted.
(b) He capitalized on their momentum.
(c) He worked closely with the communists, even though his goals were slightly different.
(d) He built his career around an alternative to socialism.

3. How did Trotsky try to influence the relationship between the Mensheviks and the Bolsheviks?
(a) He tried to reconcile them.
(b) He tried to get them both to accept Lenin's leadership.
(c) He played them against each other.
(d) He tried to help the Bolsheviks incorporate the Mensheviks.

4. What does Edmund Wilson say Taine tried to represent in his history?
(a) The pattern on the loom of French nationalist literature.
(b) The reality of the France in which he lived.
(c) The underlying economic laws that regulated French life.
(d) The underlying spiritual development in French culture.

5. What thinker did Marx return to after he broke with Proudhon?
(a) Michelet.
(b) Rousseau.
(c) Saint-Simon.
(d) Hegel.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Edmund Wilson describe the relationship between Marx and Engels?

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

3. Where did Lenin and Trotsky first meet?

4. According to Wilson, why did the theory by Marx and Engels create "strange situations"?

5. How do Marx and Engels describe a socialist society?

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