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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. How does Edmund Wilson describe Taine's approach to history?
(a) Scientific.
(b) Spiritual.
(c) Journalistic.
(d) Biographical.

2. What were Marx and Engels trying to define after writing "The Condition of the Working Class in England"?
(a) Their own individual philosophies.
(b) A revolutionary moment.
(c) A grounds for opposing the ruling classes.
(d) An excuse for starting a class war.

3. In what project did Marx involve Proudhon?
(a) Publishing young socialist philosophers.
(b) Collecting the letters of revolutionaries.
(c) Organizing workers into collectives.
(d) A correspondence to keep communists in touch with one another.

4. What thinker did Marx return to after he broke with Proudhon?
(a) Saint-Simon.
(b) Rousseau.
(c) Michelet.
(d) Hegel.

5. What did Babeuf do when he got out of prison?
(a) Began to use violence as a political tool.
(b) Wrote incendiary political tracts.
(c) Went into exile.
(d) Joined the underground.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Michelet say about the French Revolution?

2. To what does Edmund Wilson attribute the need for political action in the early/mid 1800s?

3. Why was Marx placed under police surveillance at the university?

4. How is the "Communist Manifesto" described?

5. Where did Marx grow up?

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