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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What character trait does Edmund Wilson see in both Fourier and Owen?
(a) Admiration for technology.
(b) Abhorrence for cruelty.
(c) Intolerance for weakness.
(d) Totalitarianism.

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

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

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

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

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

7. What did Jules Michelet teach?
(a) Biology and natural sciences.
(b) Astronomy.
(c) Philosophy and history.
(d) Religion.

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

9. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

15. What French philosopher influenced both Fourier and Owen?
(a) de Sade.
(b) Diderot.
(c) Voltaire.
(d) Rousseau.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Edmund Wilson relates that Babeuf worked at __________.

4. What position did Marx take in 1842?

5. What was Marx's passion while he was studying law?

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