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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the author, Michelet's writings would reappear ___________.
(a) In Darwin.
(b) In Marcuse.
(c) In Marx.
(d) In Freud.

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

3. What did Fourier and Owen believe about the relationship between groups and society?
(a) There should be small, limited societies within the greater society.
(b) There should be absolute rule by an all-powerful monarch.
(c) There should be small communes, then larger communities, then regional societies, then a loosely-affiliated confederacy. There should be absolute rule by an all-powerful monarch.
(d) There should be perfect freedom of mobility throughout a society, no matter how large.

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

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When did Marx express the desire to help humanity?

3. What was Michelet's relationship with socialism?

4. Where did Michelet go during his travels through Europe?

5. According to the author, Michelet's writings demonstrate _____________.

Short Essay Questions

1. What work did Michelet do after he had read Vico, and how did Vico's influence come through in that work?

2. What reforms did Saint-Simon want to institute?

3. Describe Michelet's methods?

4. Describe the evolution of Marx's philosophical thinking.

5. What does Edmund Wilson say about communes in America?

6. What opinions were shared by Fourier and Owen?

7. What was Michelet's later career like?

8. What was Michelet's approach to narrating history?

9. In what way did Taine distinguish between history and science?

10. Describe Babeuf's early career.

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