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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 did Taine study after 1871, when the Commune was established?

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

4. What was Michelet's relationship with socialism?

5. Prosper Enfantin was a follower of whom?

Short Essay Questions

1. In what way did Taine distinguish between history and science?

2. Describe the evolution of Marx's philosophical thinking.

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

4. Describe Babeuf's early career.

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

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

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

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

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

10. Describe Michelet's politics.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 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

How would you characterize Edmund Wilson's values and his intellectual temperament? What part of this genealogy was interesting to Wilson? Judging by his material, his omissions, and his methods, what can you say about Wilson's style and his intellectual preoccupations?

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