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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 Fourier and Owen believed about wealth?

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

3. What does Edmund Wilson examine from the Middle Ages?

4. What did La Scienza Nuova examine?

5. What Renaissance thinker did Michelet discover?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Vico's effect on Michelet?

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

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

4. Describe Marx's education and upbringing.

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

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

7. Explain Michelet's portrayal of society.

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

9. Describe Michelet's politics.

10. What was Renan's view of society?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Using Michelet's theory that government is the result of the pressures and forces and works of men, how would you explain our contemporary culture? What pressures and forces and works have created the culture in which we live?

Essay Topic 2

Which thinkers embraced Marx's work enthusiastically? Which thinkers reject his work? Describe one thinker who embraced Marx and another who rejected his work. Explain what their relationship with Marx says about their philosophies.

Essay Topic 3

Using Michelet's method of looking at paradoxes in a culture, can you say that there was a moment when the Russian Revolution became inevitable as the choice people would make in response to the paradoxes or contradictions of their times? What forces had been held in paradoxical stability that were now resolved or translated into another relation?

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