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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 value does Edmund Wilson attribute to Michelet's work?
(a) He described history from the perspective of the people living through it.
(b) He described the subterranean narrative driving history.
(c) He told history from the poor people's perspective.
(d) He told the history of nations who lost wars but kept their culture intact.

2. On what point did Marx agree with Engels when he first read his work?
(a) One spirit undergirded all of history's development.
(b) Economics was crippled by being divorced from morality and religion.
(c) History would culminate in a workers' state.
(d) German philosophy didn't provide social principles.

3. What did Michelet write about beginning in 1843?
(a) The Italian Revolution.
(b) The French Revolution.
(c) The evolution of history.
(d) The American Revolution.

4. What was Michelet's relationship with Marx and Engels?
(a) They all signed an international pacifist manifesto.
(b) They all endorsed class warfare against the rich.
(c) They all worked toward brokering a peace between owners and workers.
(d) They were all persecuted together.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Babeuf during the Revolution?

2. What did Michelet write after he had become the Conservator of the French Archives?

3. What position did Marx take in 1842?

4. How does Edmund Wilson contrast Taine with Renan?

5. What did Michelet focus on in his histories?

Short Essay Questions

1. How were Owen's communes organized?

2. What was Vico's effect on Michelet?

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

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

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

6. What happened to Michelet as a result of his writing?

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

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

9. Describe Michelet's methods?

10. Why did Marx leave Germany?

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