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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Chapters 1-2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Lenin begin to read Marx?
(a) After being expelled from the University of Kazan.
(b) In high school.
(c) At the University of Berlin.
(d) At the University of Kazan.

2. What Renaissance thinker did Michelet discover?
(a) Hobbes.
(b) Vico.
(c) Shakespeare.
(d) Da Vinci.

3. What does Edmund Wilson say Marx discovered through his work with the International Working Men's Association?
(a) The historical movement toward a workers' state was progressing.
(b) As long as workers had subsistence wages, they could be pacified.
(c) Workers did not care about the historical process.
(d) The laws of economics were truly independent of nation or industry.

4. According to Marx and Engels, from what did the bourgeoisie and the proletariat originate?
(a) From modern warfare and from industrial efficiencies, respectively.
(b) From inheritance and poverty, respectively.
(c) From the end of feudalism and from modern society, respectively.
(d) From strength and weakness, respectively.

5. What position did Marx take in 1842?
(a) Editor of a radical magazine.
(b) Investigative reporter.
(c) Editor-in-chief of a newspaper.
(d) Political activist.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Saint-Simon not participate in the French Revolution?

2. What was Michelet's relationship with socialism?

3. What was the French Enlightenment doctrine that inspired both Fourier and Owen?

4. How were Marx' early writings received?

5. What industrial facility did Engels grow up across the river from?

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