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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. According to Edmund Wilson, Babeuf saw the center of power during the French Revolution as being ______________.
(a) In the hands of the people who were unhappy.
(b) In the hands of people who counted the votes.
(c) In the hands of people who appointed the leaders.
(d) In the hands of the people with armies.

2. According to the author, the success of Owen's community depended on ______________.
(a) Inflated prices for coal.
(b) Owen's presence.
(c) Strict enforcement of laws.
(d) Owen's subsidies.

3. What was Marx's passion while he was studying law?
(a) Contract law.
(b) International law.
(c) Poetry.
(d) Philosophy.

4. What does Edmund Wilson say had happened to many revolutionaries during the twelve years that the Lenins were in exile?
(a) They had died in poverty.
(b) They had abandoned the revolution.
(c) They had died or had nervous breakdowns.
(d) They had been assassinated by the Tsar's forces.

5. According to the author, Michelet's writings would reappear ___________.
(a) In Darwin.
(b) In Marx.
(c) In Freud.
(d) In Marcuse.

Short Answer Questions

1. Prosper Enfantin was a follower of whom?

2. Why was Michelet suspended from his teaching post?

3. In what areas did Lenin's writing update Marx's, according to Edmund Wilson?

4. What did La Scienza Nuova describe?

5. Why did Marx break with Proudhon?

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