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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Chapters 7-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What language did Michelet NOT read?
(a) Spanish.
(b) German.
(c) Greek.
(d) Latin.

3. According to the author, Michelet's writings would reappear ___________.
(a) In Marx.
(b) In Darwin.
(c) In Freud.
(d) In Marcuse.

4. What does Edmund Wilson say Taine tried to represent in his history?
(a) The pattern on the loom of French nationalist literature.
(b) The underlying economic laws that regulated French life.
(c) The underlying spiritual development in French culture.
(d) The reality of the France in which he lived.

5. What does Edmund Wilson say about the French artists' and intellectuals' engagement with politics after Louis Bonaparte became Emperor in 1851?
(a) They wanted to create their own republic.
(b) They were not interested.
(c) They wanted to preserve the old feudal system of patronage.
(d) They were deeply committed to fighting for the workers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Taine believe about the French Revolution?

2. What does Edmund Wilson examine from the Middle Ages?

3. How does Michelet define the relations between the classes?

4. What did Michelet say about the French Revolution?

5. According to the author, Michelet's writings demonstrate _____________.

(see the answer key)

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