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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Edmund Wilson say about the French artists' and intellectuals' engagement with politics after Louis Bonaparte became Emperor in 1851?
(a) They wanted to preserve the old feudal system of patronage.
(b) They wanted to create their own republic.
(c) They were not interested.
(d) They were deeply committed to fighting for the workers.

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

6. According to the author, what happened to the bourgeoisie after the French Revolution?
(a) They became the capitalist owners.
(b) They retained their power.
(c) They became entrepreneurs.
(d) They were reduced to workers.

7. How old was Anatole France at the time of the Commune?
(a) Twenty-seven.
(b) Fifty-one.
(c) Thirty-seven.
(d) Twenty-one.

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

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

10. What did Michelet focus on in his histories?
(a) Laws.
(b) Customs.
(c) Traditions.
(d) Paradoxes.

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

12. Why did Saint-Simon not participate in the French Revolution?
(a) He was in prison.
(b) He was too young.
(c) He considered it destructive.
(d) He was in exile.

13. Where did Michelet begin his work on the French Revolution?
(a) With Locke and Rousseau.
(b) With feudalism.
(c) With the Rights of Man.
(d) With the American Revolution.

14. What did Michelet write as a result of his reading in the Renaissance?
(a) Roman History.
(b) The Insect.
(c) L'Amour.
(d) Introduction to Universal History.

15. 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 concept man is corrupt and evil except for the church and government.
(c) The notion that man is fundamentally good, but is corrupted by institutions.
(d) That idea that man internalizes the tension between civilization and anarchy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Michelet study in history?

2. What were Michelet's other books like after his History of France?

3. Why was Marx placed under police surveillance at the university?

4. How long did the communist government last in Paris after Michelet had his stroke?

5. What did Jules Michelet teach?

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