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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Prosper Enfantin was a follower of whom?
(a) Saint-Simon.
(b) Rousseau.
(c) Fourier and Owens.
(d) Michelet.

3. What were Michelet's other books like after his History of France?
(a) Smaller, but more detailed.
(b) Longer, and more detailed.
(c) Longer, and more confusing.
(d) Smaller, but more visionary.

4. How does Edmund Wilson characterize for Taine the difference between history and science?
(a) There was no certainty about history.
(b) There was no way to measure quantities in history.
(c) There was no perspective to observe outside of historical events.
(d) There was no experimenting in history.

5. What did La Scienza Nuova describe?
(a) A new standard for evidence and experimentation.
(b) A new approach to history.
(c) A new approach to scientific inquiry.
(d) A new model for gravity and the evolution of the universe.

6. What did Michelet describe about each social class?
(a) Its unity with the other classes.
(b) Its interdependence with the other classes.
(c) Its unique pressures and fears.
(d) Its lack of connection with the earth.

7. How did Fourier and Owen want to administer education in their ideal society?
(a) It should be provided within the commune.
(b) It should be paid for by students' families.
(c) It should revert to the apprentice system.
(d) It should be free and open to all.

8. What position did Marx take in 1842?
(a) Investigative reporter.
(b) Editor of a radical magazine.
(c) Political activist.
(d) Editor-in-chief of a newspaper.

9. What did Michelet write after he had become the Conservator of the French Archives?
(a) Introduction to Universal History.
(b) The Insect.
(c) History of the Middle Ages.
(d) Roman History.

10. What did La Scienza Nuova do for Michelet?
(a) It gave him a new standard for validating experimental results.
(b) It allowed him to tie all branches of science together.
(c) It gave him a new religious perspective on the origin of the universe.
(d) It let him tell a new and different history of France.

11. What did Jules Michelet teach?
(a) Astronomy.
(b) Biology and natural sciences.
(c) Philosophy and history.
(d) Religion.

12. What did Fourier and Owen believed about wealth?
(a) It should be given to the poor and weak.
(b) It should be equally distributed to all.
(c) It should be distributed too all based on a formula.
(d) It should be kept by the strong and the powerful.

13. What did Michelet focus on in his histories?
(a) Paradoxes.
(b) Traditions.
(c) Customs.
(d) Laws.

14. According to the author, what happened to the bourgeoisie after the French Revolution?
(a) They became entrepreneurs.
(b) They were reduced to workers.
(c) They retained their power.
(d) They became the capitalist owners.

15. When did Marx express the desire to help humanity?
(a) In elementary school essays.
(b) In his graduate thesis.
(c) In his political activism.
(d) In the final exams for high school.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Robert Owen work?

2. What made Michelet unique?

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

4. Which university did Marx attend?

5. Where did Marx learn about the ideas of Saint-Simon?

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