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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Edmund Wilson describe Anatole France?
(a) As a reformer.
(b) As a Catholic.
(c) As a radical.
(d) As a racist.

2. How does Edmund Wilson contrast Taine with Renan?
(a) Edmund Wilson says that Taine was not a serious historian.
(b) Edmund Wilson says that Taine is a more religious thinker than Renan.
(c) Edmund Wilson says that Taine was a less important thinker than Renan.
(d) Edmund Wilson saw Taine as concerned with the present.

3. Where did Michelet go during his travels through Europe?
(a) Battlefields.
(b) Monasteries.
(c) Libraries.
(d) Churches.

4. Michelet said that the bourgeoisie __________________.
(a) Own the means of production.
(b) Benefit by the oppression of the poor.
(c) Are not in touch with the people.
(d) Are the majority of people.

5. What did Fourier and Owen believe about the role of government?
(a) It should focus on industry.
(b) It should be founded in church doctrine.
(c) It should be based on its ability to maintain order.
(d) It should be concerned with public morality.

Short Answer Questions

1. What Renaissance thinker did Michelet discover?

2. According to Edmund Wilson, Babeuf saw the center of power during the French Revolution as being ______________.

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

4. What position did Marx take in 1842?

5. How old was Anatole France at the time of the Commune?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Michelet's methods?

2. What was Michelet's approach to narrating history?

3. What work did Michelet do after he had read Vico, and how did Vico's influence come through in that work?

4. How were Owen's communes organized?

5. What was Renan's view of society?

6. Explain Michelet's portrayal of society.

7. What was Vico's effect on Michelet?

8. What does Edmund Wilson say about communes in America?

9. What happened to Michelet as a result of his writing?

10. In what way did Taine distinguish between history and science?

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