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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Chapters 15-16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Edmund Wilson characterize for Taine the difference between history and science?
(a) There was no perspective to observe outside of historical events.
(b) There was no experimenting in history.
(c) There was no certainty about history.
(d) There was no way to measure quantities in history.

2. Marx's study of economics contains a discrepancy because he included _______.
(a) Morality in predicting economic behavior.
(b) Statistics in predicting class warfare.
(c) Pragmatism in defining group psychology.
(d) Religion in making a mathematical argument.

3. How does Edmund Wilson contrast Taine with Renan?
(a) Edmund Wilson says that Taine was not a serious historian.
(b) Edmund Wilson saw Taine as concerned with the present.
(c) Edmund Wilson says that Taine was a less important thinker than Renan.
(d) Edmund Wilson says that Taine is a more religious thinker than Renan.

4. What kind of approach toward the study of economics did Marx take?
(a) Pragmatic.
(b) Scientific.
(c) Religious.
(d) Literary.

5. What work did Engels have to finish when Marx died?
(a) "The Condition of the Working Class in England."
(b) Defining the master-slave dialectic.
(c) Explaining Marx's theory to the socialists.
(d) "Das Kapital."

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Marx's fundamental critique of capitalists?

2. How does Marx define labor?

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

4. What philosopher did Engels become interested in when he was in Berlin?

5. What was Taine distancing himself from in his work?

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