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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Chapters 11-12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did Marx decide to leave Germany?
(a) He was always being threatened.
(b) He was broke.
(c) It was becoming too rigid for his views.
(d) He was wanted for his political activities.

2. What did Michelet say about the French Revolution?
(a) The people were more important than the leaders.
(b) The French Revolution was inseparable from developments in economic theory.
(c) The French Revolution was really a story about the development of military technology.
(d) The masses would one day seize the means of production.

3. How does Edmund Wilson characterize for Taine the difference between history and science?
(a) There was no way to measure quantities in history.
(b) There was no perspective to observe outside of historical events.
(c) There was no certainty about history.
(d) There was no experimenting in history.

4. On what point did Marx agree with Engels when he first read his work?
(a) One spirit undergirded all of history's development.
(b) Economics was crippled by being divorced from morality and religion.
(c) German philosophy didn't provide social principles.
(d) History would culminate in a workers' state.

5. How is the "Communist Manifesto" described?
(a) The methods a revolutionary party should employ.
(b) A post-revolutionary society.
(c) The tools for bringing a revolution.
(d) A legal defense of a workers' revolution.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Marx and Engels combine with the goals of the utopian socialists?

2. According to the the author, what did Babeuf want for the people?

3. What was Marx's passion while he was studying law?

4. What did Michelet write as a result of his reading in the Renaissance?

5. According to the author, what ended with the French Revolution?

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