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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. What does Edmund Wilson examine from the Middle Ages?
(a) The emergence of the idea of nations.
(b) The development of a notion of humanity as a transcendent unity.
(c) The emergence of the notion that man could improve himself.
(d) The development of a theory of history.

2. How does Marx define labor?
(a) As a commodity.
(b) As just one agent of the earth's fulfillment in economic activity.
(c) As the source of all value.
(d) As a force of nature.

3. What was Michelet's relationship with socialism?
(a) He did not endorse it.
(b) He condemned it.
(c) He preached it in poor neighborhoods.
(d) He prophesied it.

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

5. What was Engels converted to in Cologne?
(a) Political activity.
(b) Catholicism.
(c) Protestantism.
(d) Communism.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were Michelet's other books like after his History of France?

2. Where did Owen put his idealistic notions into practice?

3. Edmund Wilson relates that Babeuf worked at __________.

4. What Renaissance thinker did Michelet discover?

5. According to the author, Michelet's writings would reappear ___________.

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