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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Chapters 3-4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Fourier and Owen believe about the relationship between groups and society?
(a) There should be absolute rule by an all-powerful monarch.
(b) There should be perfect freedom of mobility throughout a society, no matter how large.
(c) There should be small, limited societies within the greater society.
(d) There should be small communes, then larger communities, then regional societies, then a loosely-affiliated confederacy. There should be absolute rule by an all-powerful monarch.

2. Where were most French artists and thinkers living in the early 1850s?
(a) In London.
(b) In Munich.
(c) In exile.
(d) In Paris.

3. How does Michelet define the relations between the classes?
(a) Based on fear of the class below.
(b) Based on the ability to seize power.
(c) Based on greed.
(d) Based on envy of the class above.

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

5. What made Michelet unique?
(a) He saw the interrelatedness of all life.
(b) He described the underlying unity of historical themes.
(c) He wrote in the language of the ordinary man.
(d) He injected his own feelings into his historical narrative.

Short Answer Questions

1. What value does Edmund Wilson attribute to Michelet's work?

2. According to the author, what was the result of the French Revolution?

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

4. Prosper Enfantin was a follower of whom?

5. Why did Saint-Simon not participate in the French Revolution?

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