Marx for Beginners Test | Final Test - Easy

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The dialectical method views everything as ____________________.
(a) Unchanging.
(b) Changing.
(c) Replaceable.
(d) Unique.

2. What states that there is nothing beyond the natural?
(a) Materialism.
(b) Conservative.
(c) Christians.
(d) Realists.

3. The term from number 116 comes from Greek where it means what?
(a) Led by females.
(b) Evil.
(c) Placed beyond physics.
(d) Machinery.

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

5. 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.
(a) The Manuscript of 1854.
(b) The Manuscript of 1834.
(c) The Manuscript of 1864.
(d) The Manuscript of 1844.

6. What does alienation do to men?
(a) It makes them worthless to an employee.
(b) It both degrades and depersonalizes them.
(c) It causes depression.
(d) It causes fear in them.

7. Philosophy sees two kinds of men. What are these kinds of men?
(a) Materialist and idealist.
(b) Christians or pagans.
(c) Conservative and Liberal.
(d) Realists or dreamers.

8. 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 both the capitalist and the worker.
(c) Puts money in the hands of the workers.
(d) Puts money in the capitalist's wallet and not the hands of the worker.

9. Hegel was attacked for these thoughts. Why?
(a) Largely because he used the dialectical method.
(b) Largely because he was considered insane.
(c) Largely because he was wrong.
(d) Largely because his beliefs went against more powerful individuals.

10. Rius examines the roots of Marxism. At what does he begin by looking?
(a) Neanderthals.
(b) The Book of Genesis.
(c) Early man.
(d) The Middle Ages.

11. When does alienation occur?
(a) When one is left alone in a strange land.
(b) When one becomes isolated.
(c) The making of a company into a machine.
(d) An exploited laborer earns a wage, but the object he makes belongs to someone else, and the worker becomes a machine.

12. With this philosophy of seeing everything as mechanical, things are immutable or _____________________.
(a) Changing.
(b) Rarely changing.
(c) Unchanging.
(d) Usually changing.

13. Why does Rius begin by looking at this point in human history?
(a) Neanderthals are closely related to homo sapiens.
(b) Early man made many discoveries.
(c) Some men convinced people they had communication with the divine.
(d) The Book of Genesis explains the beginning of mankind.

14. Descartes used a _______________ logic to examine the world.
(a) Critical.
(b) Materialistic.
(c) Subject.
(d) Analytic.

15. Vico suggested that the history of man passes through how many different stages?
(a) Four.
(b) Six.
(c) Three.
(d) Five.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Hegel fail to see that still existed in society?

2. What did Pythagoras argue?

3. Absolute liberty was reached through what, according to Hegel?

4. As the worker is not paid enough to meet his basic needs, he is forced to do what?

5. From what does this type of value come?

(see the answer keys)

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