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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Chapters 15-16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What in particular appalled Engels about the workers' conditions?
(a) Their accidents and illnesses.
(b) Their cruelty to each other.
(c) Their lack of education.
(d) Their subservience to the masters.

2. What is Marx's fundamental critique of capitalists?
(a) They misspend the value they skim from the system.
(b) They do not deserve the workers' surplus value.
(c) They are fighting their own historical development into socialists.
(d) Their technology has alienated the workers from their labor.

3. What work did Engels have to finish when Marx died?
(a) Explaining Marx's theory to the socialists.
(b) Defining the master-slave dialectic.
(c) "The Condition of the Working Class in England."
(d) "Das Kapital."

4. Where were most French artists and thinkers living in the early 1850s?
(a) In Munich.
(b) In exile.
(c) In London.
(d) In Paris.

5. What did Marx and Engels combine with the goals of the utopian socialists?
(a) Emerson's theory of self-reliance and consolation.
(b) Goethe's theory of basic building blocks of life.
(c) Hegel's theory of organic development.
(d) Darwin's theory of evolution.

Short Answer Questions

1. Marx's study of economics contains a discrepancy because he included _______.

2. How did Marx first hear of Engels?

3. What does Edmund Wilson say about the French artists' and intellectuals' engagement with politics after Louis Bonaparte became Emperor in 1851?

4. What doctrine influenced both Marx and Engels?

5. According to Marxist economics, what kind of value does the worker create?

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