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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What did Michelet focus on in his histories?
(a) Paradoxes.
(b) Traditions.
(c) Laws.
(d) Customs.
2. What did Michelet write as a result of his reading in the Renaissance?
(a) The Insect.
(b) Introduction to Universal History.
(c) Roman History.
(d) L'Amour.
3. What did La Scienza Nuova describe?
(a) A new approach to scientific inquiry.
(b) A new approach to history.
(c) A new standard for evidence and experimentation.
(d) A new model for gravity and the evolution of the universe.
4. What Renaissance thinker did Michelet discover?
(a) Shakespeare.
(b) Hobbes.
(c) Vico.
(d) Da Vinci.
5. Michelet believed the history of the 19th century was summed up by _________.
(a) Industrialism, militarism, and socialism.
(b) Capitalism, militarism, and colonialism.
(c) Religion, technology, and militarism.
(d) Expansionism, militarism, and scientific progress.
6. What was Taine distancing himself from in his work?
(a) History.
(b) Catholicism.
(c) Religion.
(d) Romanticism.
7. Why was Marx placed under police surveillance at the university?
(a) For subversive ideas.
(b) For subverting the university.
(c) For debt.
(d) For womanizing.
8. How does Michelet define the relations between the classes?
(a) Based on fear of the class below.
(b) Based on envy of the class above.
(c) Based on greed.
(d) Based on the ability to seize power.
9. What made Michelet unique?
(a) He injected his own feelings into his historical narrative.
(b) He described the underlying unity of historical themes.
(c) He saw the interrelatedness of all life.
(d) He wrote in the language of the ordinary man.
10. Where did Owen put his idealistic notions into practice?
(a) In Fruitlands.
(b) In Utopia.
(c) In New Lanark.
(d) In Brook Farm.
11. Where did Marx grow up?
(a) Munich.
(b) Trier.
(c) Berlin.
(d) Dusseldorf.
12. What was Michelet's relationship with socialism?
(a) He did not endorse it.
(b) He preached it in poor neighborhoods.
(c) He condemned it.
(d) He prophesied it.
13. According to the author, what ended with the French Revolution?
(a) Religion.
(b) Feudalism.
(c) Communism.
(d) Capitalism.
14. What was Michelet's relationship with Marx and Engels?
(a) They all endorsed class warfare against the rich.
(b) They were all persecuted together.
(c) They all signed an international pacifist manifesto.
(d) They all worked toward brokering a peace between owners and workers.
15. What French philosopher influenced both Fourier and Owen?
(a) de Sade.
(b) Voltaire.
(c) Diderot.
(d) Rousseau.
Short Answer Questions
1. Why did Marx decide to leave Germany?
2. What character trait does Edmund Wilson see in both Fourier and Owen?
3. What was Michelet trying to develop when he discovered the Renaissance philosopher?
4. Marx wrote his doctoral thesis on ___________.
5. What happened to Michelet's interest in nations?
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