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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 were Michelet's other books like after his History of France?
(a) Smaller, but more visionary.
(b) Longer, and more confusing.
(c) Smaller, but more detailed.
(d) Longer, and more detailed.

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

3. What did Michelet write as a result of his reading in the Renaissance?
(a) L'Amour.
(b) The Insect.
(c) Roman History.
(d) Introduction to Universal History.

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

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to Edmund Wilson, Babeuf saw the center of power during the French Revolution as being ______________.

3. Marx wrote his doctoral thesis on ___________.

4. What was Taine distancing himself from in his work?

5. According to Edmund Wilson, Saint-Simon represented______________.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Explain Michelet's portrayal of society.

4. Describe Michelet's methods?

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

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

7. What did Jules Michelet discover in the work of Giavanni Vico?

8. Describe Anatole France's career.

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

10. What was Vico's effect on Michelet?

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