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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, what ended with the French Revolution?
(a) Capitalism.
(b) Religion.
(c) Communism.
(d) Feudalism.

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

3. Why was Marx placed under police surveillance at the university?
(a) For debt.
(b) For subverting the university.
(c) For subversive ideas.
(d) For womanizing.

4. What does Edmund Wilson examine from the Middle Ages?
(a) The emergence of the notion that man could improve himself.
(b) The development of a theory of history.
(c) The emergence of the idea of nations.
(d) The development of a notion of humanity as a transcendent unity.

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

6. What was Michelet's relationship with Marx and Engels?
(a) They all signed an international pacifist manifesto.
(b) They all worked toward brokering a peace between owners and workers.
(c) They all endorsed class warfare against the rich.
(d) They were all persecuted together.

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

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

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

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

11. Where did Owen put his idealistic notions into practice?
(a) In Utopia.
(b) In New Lanark.
(c) In Fruitlands.
(d) In Brook Farm.

12. According to Edmund Wilson, Babeuf saw the center of power during the French Revolution as being ______________.
(a) In the hands of people who appointed the leaders.
(b) In the hands of the people who were unhappy.
(c) In the hands of the people with armies.
(d) In the hands of people who counted the votes.

13. What did Taine believe about the French Revolution?
(a) It was evidence of corrections taking place.
(b) It was the beginning of the Communist Revolution.
(c) It would end in totalitarianism.
(d) It was evidence of a workers' state coming into existence.

14. Saint-Simon thought society should be based on ____________.
(a) Merit.
(b) Compassion.
(c) Power.
(d) Morality.

15. What did Michelet say about the French Revolution?
(a) The French Revolution was really a story about the development of military technology.
(b) The masses would one day seize the means of production.
(c) The people were more important than the leaders.
(d) The French Revolution was inseparable from developments in economic theory.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to the author, what happened to the bourgeoisie after the French Revolution?

3. What did La Scienza Nuova describe?

4. How were Marx' early writings received?

5. According to Edmund Wilson, Saint-Simon represented______________.

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