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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For whom is this book?
(a) Educated Marxists.
(b) Communists.
(c) The average reader.
(d) The unintelligent.

2. What does Rius hope this does for the reader?
(a) Educate him or her.
(b) Inspire him or her.
(c) Scare him or her.
(d) Worry him or her.

3. Of what church did Marx's father become a member?
(a) The Methodist church.
(b) The Mormon church.
(c) The Catholic church.
(d) The Lutheran church.

4. Marx concerned himself less with making a living than doing what?
(a) Asking the meaning of life.
(b) Partying.
(c) Making art.
(d) Spending time in nature.

5. What would eventually be an important work in world history?
(a) The Surrealist Manifesto.
(b) The Anarchist Manifesto.
(c) The Communist Manifesto.
(d) The Cartagena Manifesto.

6. What does Rius think about some of Marx's work?
(a) They are hard to digest and understand,
(b) They are interesting;
(c) They are useless.
(d) They are easy to understand.

7. What does this approach do for Rius?
(a) It studying Marx more difficult.
(b) It makes him feel good about his work.
(c) It gives him an amount of credibility.
(d) It gives him a chance to study Marx.

8. Marx was Jewish. Did he consider himself Jewish?
(a) Usually.
(b) Rarely.
(c) Yes.
(d) No.

9. With what was Marx charged and then acquitted?
(a) Socialism.
(b) Armed robbery.
(c) Incitement to armed rebellion.
(d) Communism.

10. Hegel's predecessor wanted to separate science from religion. What did Hegel want to do?
(a) Make religion very different from science.
(b) Make science into religion.
(c) Make religion into a science.
(d) Make science separate from religion.

11. From Bonn University, Marx moved where to finish his studies?
(a) Berlin.
(b) Munich.
(c) Frankfort.
(d) Paris.

12. How might Rius describe Marx's many works?
(a) Great.
(b) Boring.
(c) Dangerous.
(d) Strange.

13. How did Marx live for the rest of his life?
(a) In the United States.
(b) In poverty.
(c) In hiding.
(d) In Paris.

14. Who was ruthlessly exploited?
(a) Jewish workers.
(b) German workers.
(c) French workers.
(d) English workers.

15. What happened when Marx became unpopular with European governments?
(a) They sent him to Australia.
(b) They threw him in prison.
(c) They encouraged him to leave the continent.
(d) France and Brussels expelled him.

Short Answer Questions

1. Hegel wanted to justify the idea of God by proposing what?

2. How much of Marx's work does Rius want to present?

3. Marx was of which part of the spectrum between conservative and liberal?

4. How was Marx influenced in Paris?

5. Others would say that simplifying Marxism down for certain individuals is what?

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