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

2. How old was Anatole France at the time of the Commune?

3. What did Fourier and Owen believe about the role of government?

4. What did Michelet say about the French Revolution?

5. How does Michelet define the relations between the classes?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Taine's career after the Commune was founded in 1871.

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

3. How were Owen's communes organized?

4. Describe Anatole France's career.

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

6. Describe Marx's education and upbringing.

7. Compare Renan and Taine.

8. What does Edmund Wilson describe as the result of the French Revolution?

9. What opinions were shared by Fourier and Owen?

10. What was Renan's view of society?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Which of the thinkers which Edmund Wilson describes had the greatest effect on bringing about the Russian Revolution? What metrics would you use to justify such a claim for a particular thinker?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

How do the terms "proletariat" and "bourgeoisie" apply to American society? Do they map neatly to recognizable parties, or are there subcultures that do not fit in this binary? Is class struggle felt in America? If so, how?

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