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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Michelet study in history?
(a) The range of religious expression.
(b) The theories that unified all history into one narrative.
(c) The personalities that played a role in it.
(d) Technology's influence on the means of production.

2. According to Edmund Wilson, Saint-Simon represented______________.
(a) The bourgeoisie.
(b) The new kind of writer.
(c) The ancien regime.
(d) The poor.

3. 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.

4. What did Fourier and Owen believe about the role of government?
(a) It should be founded in church doctrine.
(b) It should be based on its ability to maintain order.
(c) It should be concerned with public morality.
(d) It should focus on industry.

5. Why did Marx decide to leave Germany?
(a) He was wanted for his political activities.
(b) It was becoming too rigid for his views.
(c) He was broke.
(d) He was always being threatened.

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

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

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

9. Michelet believed the history of the 19th century was summed up by _________.
(a) Industrialism, militarism, and socialism.
(b) Capitalism, militarism, and colonialism.
(c) Expansionism, militarism, and scientific progress.
(d) Religion, technology, and militarism.

10. What made Michelet unique?
(a) He wrote in the language of the ordinary man.
(b) He described the underlying unity of historical themes.
(c) He saw the interrelatedness of all life.
(d) He injected his own feelings into his historical narrative.

11. Where did Robert Owen work?
(a) In a shipping company in Glasgow.
(b) In a factory in London.
(c) In a textile mill in Manchester.
(d) In a mining town in Nottingham.

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

13. What did La Scienza Nuova examine?
(a) The factors that determined which species would survive.
(b) The inevitable lifecycle of imperial cultures.
(c) The factors that led to the development of societies.
(d) The factors that allowed republican nations to turn into empires.

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

15. How does Michelet define the relations between the classes?
(a) Based on the ability to seize power.
(b) Based on greed.
(c) Based on fear of the class below.
(d) Based on envy of the class above.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Fourier and Owen want to administer education in their ideal society?

2. According to Edmund Wilson, Babeuf saw the center of power during the French Revolution as being ______________.

3. Where did Owen put his idealistic notions into practice?

4. Saint-Simon thought society should be based on ____________.

5. What organization did Michelet want to create?

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