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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 the subterranean narrative driving history.
(b) He told history from the poor people's perspective.
(c) He told the history of nations who lost wars but kept their culture intact.
(d) He described history from the perspective of the people living through it.

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

3. What was Michelet trying to develop when he discovered the Renaissance philosopher?
(a) A theory of evolution.
(b) A new basis for poetry.
(c) A theory of gravity.
(d) A new science of history.

4. What did Michelet say about the French Revolution?
(a) The French Revolution was inseparable from developments in economic theory.
(b) The people were more important than the leaders.
(c) The French Revolution was really a story about the development of military technology.
(d) The masses would one day seize the means of production.

5. According to Edmund Wilson, Saint-Simon represented______________.
(a) The poor.
(b) The new kind of writer.
(c) The ancien regime.
(d) The bourgeoisie.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Fourier and Owen believe about the role of government?

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

3. Why was Michelet suspended from his teaching post?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Owen's background and career.

2. What was Renan's view of society?

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

4. Describe Marx's education and upbringing.

5. Describe Michelet's politics.

6. Describe Marx's time as the editor of a Cologne newspaper.

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

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

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

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

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