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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Hegel, if the worker obeyed the state, what would happen?
(a) He would one day join the elite class.
(b) He would find spiritual happiness.
(c) He would be protected.
(d) He would earn more money.

2. A group of the intellectuals thought the means of production needed to be destroyed and that individuals should do what?
(a) Go back to being in small family groups.
(b) Go back to being hunters and gatherers.
(c) Go back to being slaves.
(d) Go back to being artisans and farmers.

3. Who was Xenophanes?
(a) An early teacher.
(b) An inventor.
(c) One of the first philosophers of recorded history.
(d) One of the first muscians of recorded history.

4. Why does Marx not believe that simply raising the workers' salaries would change the situation for the worker?
(a) The workers do not want more money. They want to work less.
(b) The capitalists will not raise workers' salaries.
(c) The capitalist will not accept making less profit and will raise prices or find other ways of making sure that the rise in salary does not affect his bottom line.
(d) The capitalists will also want a raise.

5. What assumes the existence of the divine?
(a) Idealism.
(b) Liberal.
(c) Pagans.
(d) Dreamers.

6. How did philosophy start?
(a) As a criticism of supernatural or religious beliefs.
(b) Out of fear of the unknown.
(c) Out of interest in making discoveries about our world.
(d) As a study of the birth of man.

7. Absolute liberty was reached through what, according to Hegel?
(a) The French Revolution and the Prussian state.
(b) The Technological Revolution and the French state.
(c) The Marxist Revolution and the German state.
(d) The Industrial Revolution and the Russian state.

8. Why is a worker's labor power a commodity in a capitalist state?
(a) The capitalist gives the laborer the power.
(b) The capitalist is the power.
(c) The capitalist sells the labor power.
(d) The capitalist buys the labor power.

9. Many, such as Socrates, were ___________________ for their views.
(a) Ignored.
(b) Praised.
(c) Ridiculed.
(d) Persecuted.

10. Why would Hegel believe that a worker should not worry about the material?
(a) Only the spiritual matters.
(b) Only the owner should worry.
(c) The worker does not have the power to change anything.
(d) Worrying does not solve problems.

11. Seeing the world as mechanical is also known as what?
(a) Matriarchal.
(b) Mechanism.
(c) Metaphysical.
(d) Maniachal.

12. As the worker is not paid enough to meet his basic needs, he is forced to do what?
(a) Quit.
(b) Go on strike.
(c) Change jobs.
(d) Continue working at the low wage.

13. One of the aspects of most religions was a faith in some sort of afterlife. How did the Egyptians believe they had the hope of a better afterlife?
(a) If they built a tomb for themselves.
(b) If they put up with slavery during their lives.
(c) If they were wealthy.
(d) If they treated others well.

14. The Communist Manifesto was a call for all workers to do what?
(a) Unite against capitalism.
(b) Form unions.
(c) Listen to Marx.
(d) Consider Communism.

15. Increasing the efficiency of the work and the worker's productive output does what?
(a) Causes more stress on the worker.
(b) Puts money in the hands of the workers.
(c) Puts money in the hands of both the capitalist and the worker.
(d) Puts money in the capitalist's wallet and not the hands of the worker.

Short Answer Questions

1. What can make a difference in the workers' situation?

2. If power was in the hands of the people, it was what?

3. Marx argued in ________________________ that the more a worker produced, the less he could consume, and the more value a man creates, the less he has.

4. Who were the individuals who tried to find logical explanations for natural events?

5. Rius argues that the various movements and revolutions that have happened since Marx's time point to what?

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