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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. How does Edmund Wilson contrast Taine with Renan?
(a) Edmund Wilson says that Taine is a more religious thinker than Renan.
(b) Edmund Wilson saw Taine as concerned with the present.
(c) Edmund Wilson says that Taine was not a serious historian.
(d) Edmund Wilson says that Taine was a less important thinker than Renan.

2. What were the Soviets NOT calling for in 1905?
(a) Women's suffrage.
(b) Workers' rights.
(c) Eight hour workday.
(d) Freedom of the press.

3. How did the "Communist Manifesto treat education?
(a) It should be apolitical.
(b) It should proselytize for Communism.
(c) It should be free.
(d) It should be political.

4. What did "The Condition of the Working Class in England" do for Marx?
(a) It gave him a background in economics and society.
(b) It gave him publicity.
(c) It gave him legitimacy as an author.
(d) It gave him experience organizing and writing a long tract

5. When did Lenin break with the Central Committee in Germany?
(a) 1908.
(b) 1904.
(c) 1917.
(d) 1906.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Michelet say about the French Revolution?

2. What did Lenin want to establish by writing "State and Revolution"?

3. Where did the "dialectic" in dialectic materialism come from?

4. How does Edmund Wilson describe Anatole France?

5. According to the author, what was the result of the French Revolution?

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