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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 Babeuf do when he got out of prison?

2. What was the subject of Renan's The Future of Science?

3. Where did Owen put his idealistic notions into practice?

4. What value does Edmund Wilson attribute to Michelet's work?

5. Where did Michelet begin his work on the French Revolution?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why did Marx leave Germany?

3. What was Vico's effect on Michelet?

4. Describe Babeuf's early career.

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

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

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

8. Compare Renan and Taine.

9. What opinions were shared by Fourier and Owen?

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

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

Compare and contrast the philosophies of two political or economic philosophers of your choice. How are their philosophies similar? How are they different?

Essay Topic 3

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.

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