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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did Babeuf do when he got out of prison?
(a) Went into exile.
(b) Wrote incendiary political tracts.
(c) Joined the underground.
(d) Began to use violence as a political tool.

3. Michelet said that the bourgeoisie __________________.
(a) Benefit by the oppression of the poor.
(b) Own the means of production.
(c) Are not in touch with the people.
(d) Are the majority of people.

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

5. According to the author, Michelet's writings demonstrate _____________.
(a) How the master-slave dialectic is present in every culture.
(b) How class warfare is latent in every nation.
(c) How all classes belong to one economy.
(d) How different economies drive different parts of each nation's economy.

6. Where did Marx grow up?
(a) Berlin.
(b) Munich.
(c) Dusseldorf.
(d) Trier.

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

8. What value does Edmund Wilson attribute to Michelet's work?
(a) He described history from the perspective of the people living through it.
(b) He described the subterranean narrative driving history.
(c) He told the history of nations who lost wars but kept their culture intact.
(d) He told history from the poor people's perspective.

9. Marx wrote his doctoral thesis on ___________.
(a) Rousseau.
(b) Hegel.
(c) Saint-Simon.
(d) Michelet.

10. According to the author, what was the result of the French Revolution?
(a) Wealth was concentrated in a few hands.
(b) The people acquired vast political power.
(c) Private property was abolished in many places.
(d) The church acquired large amounts of land.

11. What Renaissance thinker did Michelet discover?
(a) Da Vinci.
(b) Shakespeare.
(c) Hobbes.
(d) Vico.

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

13. How long did the communist government last in Paris after Michelet had his stroke?
(a) Two and a half months.
(b) Five months.
(c) Five years.
(d) Ten months.

14. What name was ultimately given to the line of thought Michelet developed?
(a) Re-oriented natural history.
(b) Capitalism.
(c) Natural selection.
(d) Communism.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What character trait does Edmund Wilson see in both Fourier and Owen?

2. How does Edmund Wilson describe Taine's approach to history?

3. What does Edmund Wilson say Taine tried to represent in his history?

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

5. Why did Marx decide to leave Germany?

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