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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. Saint-Simon thought society should be based on ____________.

2. What did La Scienza Nuova describe?

3. Marx wrote his doctoral thesis on ___________.

4. What did Fourier and Owen believe about the relationship between groups and society?

5. What does Edmund Wilson say Taine tried to represent in his history?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe Anatole France's career.

3. How were Owen's communes organized?

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

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

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

7. What was Michelet's later career like?

8. Describe Michelet's methods?

9. What reforms did Saint-Simon want to institute?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the effect of imprisonment and internal exile to Siberia on the thinking of the socialist thinkers who brought about the Russian Revolution. Why were they sent there? What did they learn there?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

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?

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