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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 La Scienza Nuova do for Michelet?

2. What made Michelet unique?

3. What was the French Enlightenment doctrine that inspired both Fourier and Owen?

4. Edmund Wilson relates that Babeuf worked at __________.

5. How did Fourier and Owen want to administer education in their ideal society?

Short Essay Questions

1. What opinions were shared by Fourier and Owen?

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

3. What was Vico's effect on Michelet?

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

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

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

7. How were Owen's communes organized?

8. Describe Marx's education and upbringing.

9. Describe Michelet's methods?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Why do you think Fourier's communes never progressed, while Owen's did? Was it simply a question of money, or were there other factors? How do you explain the fact that Owen's communes fell apart if he was gone? What do these things tell us about communist theory and practice?

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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