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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. What value does Edmund Wilson attribute to Michelet's work?
(a) He described history from the perspective of the people living through it.
(b) He described the subterranean narrative driving history.
(c) He told history from the poor people's perspective.
(d) He told the history of nations who lost wars but kept their culture intact.

2. When was Jules Michelet teaching?
(a) The 1820s.
(b) The 1850s.
(c) The 1920s.
(d) The 1880s.

3. What did Michelet describe about each social class?
(a) Its interdependence with the other classes.
(b) Its lack of connection with the earth.
(c) Its unique pressures and fears.
(d) Its unity with the other classes.

4. What Renaissance thinker did Michelet discover?
(a) Da Vinci.
(b) Hobbes.
(c) Vico.
(d) Shakespeare.

5. What was Taine distancing himself from in his work?
(a) Religion.
(b) History.
(c) Romanticism.
(d) Catholicism.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to Michelet's interest in nations?

2. What was Michelet's relationship with socialism?

3. What was Saint-Simon's theory of history?

4. What did La Scienza Nuova examine?

5. What did Michelet focus on in his histories?

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