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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. Where did Marx learn about the ideas of Saint-Simon?

2. Where were most French artists and thinkers living in the early 1850s?

3. What did Babeuf do when he got out of prison?

4. What did Michelet describe about each social class?

5. What did La Scienza Nuova do for Michelet?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How were Owen's communes organized?

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

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

5. What was Vico's effect on Michelet?

6. Compare Renan and Taine.

7. Explain Michelet's portrayal of society.

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

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

10. Describe Marx's education and upbringing.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the effect of imprisonment and internal exile to Siberia on the thinking of the socialist thinkers who brought about the Russian Revolution. Why were they sent there? What did they learn there?

Essay Topic 2

What external opposition did communists and socialists face? Who were their principal opponents, and what methods were used to oppose them? Why were those methods ultimately unsuccessful in Russia? Why were socialism and communism more successfully resisted in Europe?

Essay Topic 3

Engels, for one, had a conversion experience that brought him to communism. How did thinkers find communism as a solution to society's problems or questions? Were they converted? What had they believed before? For what questions or problems was communism the answer?

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