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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 demonstrate _____________.
(a) How all classes belong to one economy.
(b) How class warfare is latent in every nation.
(c) How different economies drive different parts of each nation's economy.
(d) How the master-slave dialectic is present in every culture.

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

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

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

5. How does Edmund Wilson contrast Taine with Renan?
(a) Edmund Wilson says that Taine is a more religious thinker than Renan.
(b) Edmund Wilson saw Taine as concerned with the present.
(c) Edmund Wilson says that Taine was a less important thinker than Renan.
(d) Edmund Wilson says that Taine was not a serious historian.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the author, Saint-Simon viewed society's goals as changing ______________.

2. What does Edmund Wilson say Taine tried to represent in his history?

3. How did Taine examine works of literature?

4. What position did Marx take in 1842?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Vico's effect on Michelet?

2. Describe Michelet's politics.

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

4. Why did Marx leave Germany?

5. Describe Owen's background and career.

6. How were Owen's communes organized?

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

8. What intellectual tradition had Michelet inherited from the Middle Ages?

9. What does Edmund Wilson describe as the result of the French Revolution?

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

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