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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. 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 revert to the apprentice system.
(c) It should be provided within the commune.
(d) It should be paid for by students' families.

2. How does Edmund Wilson characterize for Taine the difference between history and science?
(a) There was no way to measure quantities in history.
(b) There was no certainty about history.
(c) There was no perspective to observe outside of historical events.
(d) There was no experimenting in history.

3. When was Jules Michelet teaching?
(a) The 1880s.
(b) The 1850s.
(c) The 1820s.
(d) The 1920s.

4. Why did Marx decide to leave Germany?
(a) It was becoming too rigid for his views.
(b) He was broke.
(c) He was wanted for his political activities.
(d) He was always being threatened.

5. Where were most French artists and thinkers living in the early 1850s?
(a) In Munich.
(b) In London.
(c) In exile.
(d) In Paris.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Jules Michelet teach?

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

3. What did Taine believe about the French Revolution?

4. Which university did Marx attend?

5. What character trait does Edmund Wilson see in both Fourier and Owen?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Describe Marx's education and upbringing.

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

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

7. What opinions were shared by Fourier and Owen?

8. What was Michelet's later career like?

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

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

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