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

2. How does Edmund Wilson describe Taine's approach to history?
(a) Scientific.
(b) Spiritual.
(c) Journalistic.
(d) Biographical.

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

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

5. What did Fourier and Owen believe about the relationship between groups and society?
(a) There should be absolute rule by an all-powerful monarch.
(b) There should be small communes, then larger communities, then regional societies, then a loosely-affiliated confederacy. There should be absolute rule by an all-powerful monarch.
(c) There should be small, limited societies within the greater society.
(d) There should be perfect freedom of mobility throughout a society, no matter how large.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Taine study after 1871, when the Commune was established?

2. When did Lenin break with the Central Committee in Germany?

3. What Renaissance thinker did Michelet discover?

4. What did La Scienza Nuova do for Michelet?

5. How does Edmund Wilson characterize for Taine the difference between history and science?

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