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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the French Enlightenment doctrine that inspired both Fourier and Owen?
(a) The belief that man will always be at war with himself.
(b) The notion that man is fundamentally good, but is corrupted by institutions.
(c) That idea that man internalizes the tension between civilization and anarchy.
(d) The concept man is corrupt and evil except for the church and government.

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

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

4. How were Marx' early writings received?
(a) They were not much noticed.
(b) They resulted in his exile from Germany.
(c) They incited radical groups to action.
(d) They generated interest from the newspaper readers.

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

6. What organization did Michelet want to create?
(a) An international monetary fund.
(b) An armed peace league.
(c) A congress of industrial leaders.
(d) A European army to keep workers in line.

7. To what does Edmund Wilson attribute the need for political action in the early/mid 1800s?
(a) Riots and strikes.
(b) Droughts.
(c) Centralization of power in the hands of the aristocracy.
(d) Lack of reform by Friedrich Wilhelm IV.

8. Which university did Marx attend?
(a) Bonn.
(b) Berlin.
(c) Weisbaden.
(d) Munich.

9. What did Michelet write about beginning in 1843?
(a) The French Revolution.
(b) The evolution of history.
(c) The American Revolution.
(d) The Italian Revolution.

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

11. What does Edmund Wilson say Taine tried to represent in his history?
(a) The pattern on the loom of French nationalist literature.
(b) The underlying economic laws that regulated French life.
(c) The reality of the France in which he lived.
(d) The underlying spiritual development in French culture.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why did Marx decide to leave Germany?

3. How old was Babeuf during the Revolution?

4. What did Taine believe about the French Revolution?

5. What happened to Michelet's interest in nations?

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