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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. The price of a commodity or product is created through what?

2. How did philosophy start?

3. Marx and Engels used dialectics. What are dialectics?

4. From what does this type of value come?

5. In Europe, who was one individual who did advocate for rebellion against the church and its dictatorship?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do the foundations of Marx's economic thought begin to come together?

2. What was the Communist Manifesto?

3. What does Marx say about alienation?

4. What are the ideas of Giambattista Vico?

5. Describe the French socialists. What did Marx think of these men?

6. Describe an example given by Marx about a capitalist employer.

7. What does Marx say about the capitalist?

8. What are the ideas of empiricism? Who supported these ideas?

9. How was religion used to keep workers enslaved?

10. How did Marx and Engels get the opportunity to write the Communist Manifesto?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Marx marries Jenny Von Westphalen.

Part 1) Who is Jenny? Why does this cause some difficulties?

Part 2) Why might Jenny have married Marx? How does her marriage to Marx affect her life? Do you believe she, in the end, was happy with this marriage? Why or why not?

Part 3) Why does Marx marry Jenny? Should he have married her? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

Karl Marx is widely regarded as the founder of Communism.

Part 1) What is Communism? Why is he widely regarded as the founder of Communism?

Part 2) What theories are connected to Communism? How did they influence Marx's ideas?

Part 3) How might the world be different without Communism and Karl Marx? Use the text to support the response.

Essay Topic 3

Empiricism existed before Marxism.

Part 1) What is empiricism? How did this belief come to exist?

Part 2) How did men like Locke and Hume support this idea of empiricism? How did their beliefs, in turn, affect the leaders during their time?

Part 3) What role did empiricism play in the history of our own country?

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