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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 happened to Michelet's interest in nations?
(a) It became an interest in empires.
(b) It became an interest in individuals.
(c) It became an interest in religions.
(d) It became an interest in communities.

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

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

4. How were Fourier and Owen representative of early nineteenth century thinkers?
(a) They espoused liberal political views.
(b) They supported totalitarian leaders.
(c) They did not subscribe to liberal politics.
(d) They wanted a return to law and order.

5. What did Michelet describe about each social class?
(a) Its unique pressures and fears.
(b) Its unity with the other classes.
(c) Its interdependence with the other classes.
(d) Its lack of connection with the earth.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the author, the success of Owen's community depended on ______________.

2. What did Michelet study in history?

3. How does Edmund Wilson characterize for Taine the difference between history and science?

4. Where did Robert Owen work?

5. Which university did Marx attend?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Marx leave Germany?

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

3. Describe Michelet's politics.

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

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

6. What opinions were shared by Fourier and Owen?

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

8. What was Vico's effect on Michelet?

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

10. Describe the evolution of Marx's philosophical thinking.

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