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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. 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 create their own republic.
(b) They were deeply committed to fighting for the workers.
(c) They wanted to preserve the old feudal system of patronage.
(d) They were not interested.

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

3. 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 is a more religious thinker than Renan.
(c) Edmund Wilson says that Taine was not a serious historian.
(d) Edmund Wilson saw Taine as concerned with the present.

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

5. How did Fourier and Owen want to administer education in their ideal society?
(a) It should revert to the apprentice system.
(b) It should be provided within the commune.
(c) It should be paid for by students' families.
(d) It should be free and open to all.

Short Answer Questions

1. What name was ultimately given to the line of thought Michelet developed?

2. Why did Saint-Simon not participate in the French Revolution?

3. What did La Scienza Nuova do for Michelet?

4. When was Michelet suspended from his teaching post?

5. What French philosopher influenced both Fourier and Owen?

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 does Edmund Wilson describe as the result of the French Revolution?

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

4. Describe Marx's education and upbringing.

5. What opinions were shared by Fourier and Owen?

6. Describe Michelet's methods?

7. How was Saint-Simon representative of the new breed of intellectual in the 19th-century?

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

9. What did Michelet write about, and what was the effect of his writing?

10. What was Vico's effect on Michelet?

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