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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Michelet write about beginning in 1843?

2. What did Taine believe about the French Revolution?

3. What was Michelet's relationship with socialism?

4. How old was Babeuf during the Revolution?

5. What French philosopher influenced both Fourier and Owen?

Short Essay Questions

1. How were Owen's communes organized?

2. Describe Michelet's politics.

3. Describe Owen's background and career.

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

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

6. What was Renan's view of society?

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

8. What opinions were shared by Fourier and Owen?

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

10. How was Saint-Simon representative of the new breed of intellectual in the 19th-century?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Which thinkers embraced Marx's work enthusiastically? Which thinkers reject his work? Describe one thinker who embraced Marx and another who rejected his work. Explain what their relationship with Marx says about their philosophies.

Essay Topic 2

Describe the effect of imprisonment and internal exile to Siberia on the thinking of the socialist thinkers who brought about the Russian Revolution. Why were they sent there? What did they learn there?

Essay Topic 3

Evaluate the importance of Hegel's philosophy on the socialist thought that led to the Russian Revolution. What part of Hegel's writing did Russian thinkers find compelling, and which thinkers interpreted his work to make it contribute to the revolution? How much of the Russian Revolution can be laid at Hegel's feet?

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