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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Taine study after 1871, when the Commune was established?

2. What position did Marx take in 1842?

3. What language did Michelet NOT read?

4. What did Michelet study in history?

5. What did La Scienza Nuova describe?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Michelet's later career like?

2. Why did Marx leave Germany?

3. What was Renan's view of society?

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

5. Explain Michelet's portrayal of society.

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

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

8. What opinions were shared by Fourier and Owen?

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

10. Describe Anatole France's career.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the relationship between socialism and communism? Where did communes become an integral part of the vision for Russia?

Essay Topic 2

Write a review of "To Finland Station." What is the book's accomplishment? What did it set out to do? What were its methods? Did it accomplish its goal? What else could or should "Finland Station" have done?

Essay Topic 3

Which thinkers would have been satisfied with the Russian Revolution as the fulfillment of their work? Which thinkers would have been horrified? Explain how three philosophers' work would have been fulfilled or betrayed by the Communist Revolution.

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