
1. Carlyle saw "Great Men" as
~ Carlyle saw "Great Men" as agents of Hegel's spirit. They existed to help move the world forward.
@ Carlyle saw "Great Men" as agents of Hegel's spirit. They existed to help move the world forward.
a. liars and manipulators by nature.
b. Gods.
c. the biggest problem facing his culture.
*d. agents of Hegel's spirit.

2. Carlyle understood "Great Men" to be
~ Carlyle understood "Great Men" to be the motive forces in history. They initiate change and have a true perception of reality.
@ Carlyle understood "Great Men" to be the motive forces in history. They initiate change and have a true perception of reality.
*a. the motive forces in history.
b. being obsessed with themselves.
c. anyone in a position of power, especially a king.
d. rebels against the general tide of popular culture.

3. Which of following quotations provides textual evidence for Carlyle's view of "Great Men" as the motive force in historical change?
~ "...these great ones: the modellers, patterns, and in a wide sense creators, of whatsoever the general mass of men contrived to do or to attain; all things that we see standing accomplished in the world are properly the outer material result, the practical realization and embodiment...the soul of the whole world's history."
@ "...these great ones: the modellers, patterns, and in a wide sense creators, of whatsoever the general mass of men contrived to do or to attain; all things that we see standing accomplished in the world are properly the outer material result, the practical realization and embodiment...the soul of the whole world's history."
a. "And yet if he sway too much from the perpendicular; above all, if he throw plummet and level quite away from him, and pile brick on brick heedless, just as it comes to hand! Such bricklayer I think, is in a bad way. He has forgotten himself: but the Law of Gravitation does not forget to act on him."
b. "So it was by Nature, by Napoleon-Nature; and yet look how in fact--HERE AM I! He cannot understand it: inconceivable that the reality has not corresponded to his programme of it."
c. "You have put the too Unable Man at the head of affairs! The too ignoble, unvaliant, fatuous man. You have forgotten that there is any rule, or natural necessity whatever, of putting the Ableman there."
*d. "...these great ones: the modellers, patterns, and in a wide sense creators, of whatsoever the general mass of men contrived to do or to attain; all things that we see standing accomplished in the world are properly the outer material result, the practical realization and embodiment...the soul of the whole world's history."

4. Carlyle argues that Cromwell was a "Great Man" because
~ Carlyle argues that Cromwell was a "Great Man" because Cromwell perceived the truth about what needed to be done and was able to do it. His background prepared him for the role he was to play: he was the "Able Man" for his time.
@ Carlyle argues that Cromwell was a "Great Man" because Cromwell perceived the truth about what needed to be done and was able to do it. His background prepared him for the role he was to play: he was the "Able Man" for his time.
a. Cromwell was a Puritan and Carlyle preferred Protestants to Catholics.
*b. Cromwell perceived the truth about what needed to be done and was able to do it.
c. Cromwell was falsely accused of hypocrisy.
d. Cromwell was humble.

5. Based on this selection from the text, what model of government do you think Carlyle would advocate?
~ One can infer from this selection that the ideal government would be a monarchy ruled by a Great Man, but one might also infer that because a Great Man perceives the truth of things, he would also be ruling according to God's will. A king who perceives God's will is not quite the same as a theocracy.
@ One can infer from this selection that the ideal government would be a monarchy ruled by a Great Man, but one might also infer that because a Great Man perceives the truth of things, he would also be ruling according to God's will. A king who perceives God's will is not quite the same as a theocracy.
a. a republic, with full and democratic mass participation
b. a theocracy in which God rules through a Great Man.
*c. a monarchy with a Great Man as king
d. a limited monarchy with checks on the king's power

6. The emotional narrative style of this text is characteristic of
~ The emotional narrative style of this text is characteristic of Romantic historiography. Romanticism was the dominant style in European art and literature from 1800 to the late nineteenth century. Artists and writers departed from the rules and geometric lines of Classicism and infused emotional content into their works.
@ The emotional narrative style of this text is characteristic of Romantic historiography. Romanticism was the dominant style in European art and literature from 1800 to the late nineteenth century. Artists and writers departed from the rules and geometric lines of Classicism and infused emotional content into their works.
a. Universal history as Hegel defined it.
b. Historical fiction.
*c. Romantic historiography.
d. Enlightenment historiography.

7. Which of the following quotations provides textual evidence for Carlyle's view of Napoleon's downfall as a "Great Man"?
~ "The compact, clear-seeing, decisive Italian nature of him, strong, genuine, which he once had, has enveloped itself, half dissolved itself, in a turbid atmosphere of French fanfaronade."
@ "The compact, clear-seeing, decisive Italian nature of him, strong, genuine, which he once had, has enveloped itself, half dissolved itself, in a turbid atmosphere of French fanfaronade."
*a. "The compact, clear-seeing, decisive Italian nature of him, strong, genuine, which he once had, has enveloped itself, half dissolved itself, in a turbid atmosphere of French fanfaronade."
b. "So too in Practice: he, as every man that can be great, or have victory in this world, sees, through all entanglements, the practical heart of the matter; drives straight towards that."
c. "Yet Napoleon had a sincerity: we are to distinguish between what is superficial and what is fundamental in insincerity."
d. "'False as a bulletin' became a proverb in Napoleon's time. He makes what excuse he could for it."

8. Which of the following quotations provides textual evidence for Carlyle's view of Napoleon as a "Great Man"
~ "So too in Practice: he, as every man that can be great, or have victory in this world, sees, through all entanglements, the practical heart of the matter; drives straight towards that."
@ "So too in Practice: he, as every man that can be great, or have victory in this world, sees, through all entanglements, the practical heart of the matter; drives straight towards that."
a. "'False as a bulletin' became a proverb in Napoleon's time. He makes what excuse he could for it."
b. "The compact, clear-seeing, decisive Italian nature of him, strong, genuine, which he once had, has enveloped itself, half dissolved itself, in a turbid atmosphere of French fanfaronade."
c. "Yet Napoleon had a sincererity: we are to distinguish between what is superficial and what is fundamental in insincerity."
*d. "So too in Practice: he, as every man that can be great, or have victory in this world, sees, through all entanglements, the practical heart of the matter; drives straight towards that."

9. The difference between Carlyle's "Great Man" theory and the "heroic history" of the ancient Greeks is
~ The difference between Carlyle's "Great Man" theory and the "heroic history" of the ancient Greeks is that Carlyle used the Hegelian understanding of historical change: Great Men are agents of Hegel's Spirit. Without this understanding of Great Man as able to perceive the workings of the Spirit and carry out the needed actions to move history forward, Carlyle's interpretation of the motive forces of history would be no different from that of the ancient Greek historians.
@ The difference between Carlyle's "Great Man" theory and the "heroic history" of the ancient Greeks is that Carlyle used the Hegelian understanding of historical change: Great Men are agents of Hegel's Spirit. Without this understanding of Great Man as able to perceive the workings of the Spirit and carry out the needed actions to move history forward, Carlyle's interpretation of the motive forces of history would be no different from that of the ancient Greek historians.
a. that Carlyle did not view "Great Men" as the motive force of historical change, whereas in Greek historiography, heroes are the main motive forces.
*b. that Carlyle used the Hegelian understanding of historical change: Great Men were agents of Hegel's Spirit.
c. non-existent.
d. "Great Men" were not considered to be gods, whereas ancient Greek heroes and leaders were deified.

10. Carlyle justifies Cromwell's decision to kill King Charles as an example of
~ Carlyle justifies Cromwell's decision to kill King Charles as an example of a Great Man accomplishing what is truly needed. Carlyle writes: "It is a stern business killing a King! But if you once go to war with him...you have made wager of battle with him: it is he to die, or else you...." Furthermore, Carlyle wrote that Charles, not being a Great Man himself, did not deserve the throne: "The unhappy Charles, in those final Hampton-Court negotiations, shows himself as a man fatally incapable of being dealt with. A man who...could not and would not understand: -- whose thought did not in any measure represent to him the real fact of the matter; nay worse, whose word did not at all represent his thought."
@ Carlyle justifies Cromwell's decision to kill king Charles as an example of a Great Man accomplishing what is truly needed. Carlyle writes: "It is a stern business killing a King! But if you once go to war with him...you have made wager of battle with him: it is he to die, or else you...." Furthermore, Carlyle wrote that Charles, not being a Great Man himself, did not deserve the throne: "The unhappy Charles, in those final Hampton-Court negotiations, shows himself as a man fatally incapable of being dealt with. A man who...could not and would not understand: -- whose thought did not in any measure represent to him the real fact of the matter; nay worse, whose word did not at all represent his thought."
*a. a "Great Man" accomplishing what is truly needed.
b. the fall of a "Great Man."
c. the "synthesis" phase of the Hegelian dialectic.
d. the beginnings of Cromwell's descent into madness.