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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Michelet's relationship with socialism?
(a) He preached it in poor neighborhoods.
(b) He condemned it.
(c) He prophesied it.
(d) He did not endorse it.

2. What was the subject of Renan's The Future of Science?
(a) Morality and faith in society.
(b) Conflict in scientific communities.
(c) Technology and science in religion.
(d) Philosophy in economics.

3. When was Jules Michelet teaching?
(a) The 1850s.
(b) The 1880s.
(c) The 1820s.
(d) The 1920s.

4. Where did Michelet go during his travels through Europe?
(a) Libraries.
(b) Battlefields.
(c) Churches.
(d) Monasteries.

5. Where did Marx learn about the ideas of Saint-Simon?
(a) From his parents.
(b) From his neighbor.
(c) In the military.
(d) In school.

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

7. How does Edmund Wilson describe Anatole France?
(a) As a racist.
(b) As a reformer.
(c) As a radical.
(d) As a Catholic.

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

9. On what point did Marx agree with Engels when he first read his work?
(a) One spirit undergirded all of history's development.
(b) German philosophy didn't provide social principles.
(c) History would culminate in a workers' state.
(d) Economics was crippled by being divorced from morality and religion.

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

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

12. How were Fourier and Owen representative of early nineteenth century thinkers?
(a) They espoused liberal political views.
(b) They wanted a return to law and order.
(c) They supported totalitarian leaders.
(d) They did not subscribe to liberal politics.

13. When was Michelet suspended from his teaching post?
(a) 1855.
(b) 1848.
(c) 1850.
(d) 1860.

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

15. What language did Michelet NOT read?
(a) Latin.
(b) Greek.
(c) German.
(d) Spanish.

Short Answer Questions

1. How were Marx' early writings received?

2. Where were most French artists and thinkers living in the early 1850s?

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

4. How does Michelet define the relations between the classes?

5. According to the the author, what did Babeuf want for the people?

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