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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Chapters 9-10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Edmund Wilson, Saint-Simon represented______________.
(a) The bourgeoisie.
(b) The poor.
(c) The ancien regime.
(d) The new kind of writer.

2. What was the one condition on which Proudhon agreed to Marx's project?
(a) It would bring about the revolution.
(b) It would not result in political action.
(c) It would not put them at risk of being arrested.
(d) It would not become a religious doctrine.

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

4. What did Michelet say about the French Revolution?
(a) The French Revolution was inseparable from developments in economic theory.
(b) The French Revolution was really a story about the development of military technology.
(c) The people were more important than the leaders.
(d) The masses would one day seize the means of production.

5. Saint-Simon thought society should be based on ____________.
(a) Compassion.
(b) Morality.
(c) Merit.
(d) Power.

Short Answer Questions

1. What language did Michelet NOT read?

2. What were Marx and Engels trying to define after writing "The Condition of the Working Class in England"?

3. How does Edmund Wilson describe Marx and Engels' doctrine for intervention in human affairs?

4. According to the author, Michelet's writings would reappear ___________.

5. Edmund Wilson relates that Babeuf worked at __________.

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