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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Chapters 15-16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the author, what ended with the French Revolution?
(a) Feudalism.
(b) Communism.
(c) Religion.
(d) Capitalism.

2. How does a dialectical system progress?
(a) A dominant culture spawns emergent cultures that become dominant in turn.
(b) The thesis is negated by the antithesis, and the conflict produces a new synthesis.
(c) Systems remain vital by bringing opposing views into dialogue.
(d) Institutions grow by repressing or appropriating internal movements.

3. How does Edmund Wilson describe Marx and Engels' doctrine for intervention in human affairs?
(a) As idealistic and prophetic.
(b) As practical and local.
(c) As overly-detailed and narrow.
(d) As functional and international.

4. Where did the "dialectic" in dialectic materialism come from?
(a) Hegel.
(b) Diderot.
(c) Emerson.
(d) Rousseau.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What name was ultimately given to the line of thought Michelet developed?

2. What language did Michelet NOT read?

3. Marx's study of economics contains a discrepancy because he included _______.

4. What did Michelet describe about each social class?

5. Where did Marx grow up?

(see the answer key)

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