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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, what happened to the bourgeoisie after the French Revolution?

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

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

4. What character trait does Edmund Wilson see in both Fourier and Owen?

5. How did Taine examine works of literature?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Babeuf's early career.

2. What was Vico's effect on Michelet?

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

4. Describe Owen's background and career.

5. Describe Michelet's politics.

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

7. What was Renan's view of society?

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

9. What opinions were shared by Fourier and Owen?

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

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

What internal conflicts did communism have to suppress in order to take its place as the dominant ideology following the Russian Revolution? What splinter groups or secondary ideologies were competing with Lenin's vision?

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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