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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 did Engels see as a sign of the workers' poor working conditions?
(a) Their lack of gaiety.
(b) Their productivity.
(c) Their poverty.
(d) Their religiousness.

2. How were Marx' early writings received?
(a) They generated interest from the newspaper readers.
(b) They resulted in his exile from Germany.
(c) They were not much noticed.
(d) They incited radical groups to action.

3. What does Marx say a society based on class destroys?
(a) Working class heroes.
(b) Tradition.
(c) A worker's individuality.
(d) The relationship between men.

4. Why was Marx placed under police surveillance at the university?
(a) For womanizing.
(b) For subversive ideas.
(c) For debt.
(d) For subverting the university.

5. Edmund Wilson relates that Babeuf worked at __________.
(a) Attacking the church during the Revolution.
(b) Promoting the Revolution.
(c) Secularizing France.
(d) Protecting the rich from the Revolution.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How did Marx and Engels view their theory of history?

3. What Renaissance thinker did Michelet discover?

4. What did Taine believe about the French Revolution?

5. According to Marx, what kind of labor do machines contain?

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