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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Chapter 1-2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Taine examine works of literature?
(a) As living experiences.
(b) As specimens.
(c) As living spiritual events.
(d) As historical way posts.

2. Michelet said that the bourgeoisie __________________.
(a) Are the majority of people.
(b) Own the means of production.
(c) Benefit by the oppression of the poor.
(d) Are not in touch with the people.

3. Why was Michelet suspended from his teaching post?
(a) Obscenity.
(b) Impropriety.
(c) Treason.
(d) Radicalism.

4. What did La Scienza Nuova do for Michelet?
(a) It allowed him to tie all branches of science together.
(b) It gave him a new religious perspective on the origin of the universe.
(c) It let him tell a new and different history of France.
(d) It gave him a new standard for validating experimental results.

5. Where did Michelet begin his work on the French Revolution?
(a) With the American Revolution.
(b) With feudalism.
(c) With Locke and Rousseau.
(d) With the Rights of Man.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How old was Anatole France at the time of the Commune?

3. According to the author, what happened to the bourgeoisie after the French Revolution?

4. What did Babeuf do when he got out of prison?

5. According to Edmund Wilson, Babeuf saw the center of power during the French Revolution as being ______________.

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