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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Marx distinguish between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie in terms of morality?
(a) He says that the proletariat determines the bourgeoisie's morality based on what the bourgeoisie is afraid of.
(b) He says that what is right for one class is not right for the other.
(c) He says that the proletariat acknowledges a universal morality, but the bourgeoisie invents its own.
(d) He says that the bourgeoisie's power subjects the proletariat to the bourgeoisie's morals.

2. Where was Engels working while he and Marx were writing articles together?
(a) In a mill in Manchester.
(b) In an exchange in Zurich.
(c) In a factory in London.
(d) In a publisher's house in Berlin.

3. What thinker did Marx return to after he broke with Proudhon?
(a) Saint-Simon.
(b) Hegel.
(c) Michelet.
(d) Rousseau.

4. What affect did Lassalle have on the relationship between Marx and Engels?
(a) He brought them closer together.
(b) He strained it.
(c) He clarified their differences.
(d) He played them against each other.

5. When did Trotsky first study Marx and Lenin?
(a) In Siberia.
(b) In high school.
(c) In France.
(d) At the university.

6. How does Edmund Wilson characterize Bakunin's career?
(a) He spent his life trying to be part of revolutions in Europe.
(b) He wrote extensively, but he never participated in a political movement.
(c) He became a close ally of Marx's and was responsible for spreading Marx's ideas internationally.
(d) He made a name for himself as the actor who would fulfill Marx's prophecies.

7. The "Communist Manifesto" by Marx and Engel wanted to end ____________.
(a) State run transportation.
(b) Appropriation of land.
(c) Free education for children and workers.
(d) The right of inheritance.

8. What does Marx say a society based on class prevents?
(a) A recognition of universal rights.
(b) Solidarity between workers from different nations.
(c) Abuses of workers' rights.
(d) Class warfare.

9. How did Engels characterize classical economic theories?
(a) As obsolete relative to new technologies for production.
(b) As rationalizations for capitalists' greed.
(c) As mathematical abstractions out of touch with the finances of poverty.
(d) As mere meditations on capital, without grounds in reality.

10. When did Trotsky return to Russia after the 1905 revolt?
(a) 1927.
(b) 1921.
(c) 1917.
(d) 1912.

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

12. What were Marx and Engels trying to define after writing "The Condition of the Working Class in England"?
(a) An excuse for starting a class war.
(b) A grounds for opposing the ruling classes.
(c) A revolutionary moment.
(d) Their own individual philosophies.

13. What organization did Lassalle establish?
(a) The General Union of German Workers.
(b) International Working Men's Association.
(c) The Syndicate of Technical Workers and Artists.
(d) The German Communist Party.

14. What made Marx and Engels pioneers in their field?
(a) The combination of a theory of history and a theory of economics.
(b) The internationalism in their work.
(c) The inclusion of technological innovation in their predictions.
(d) The prophecy of a workers' state.

15. Where did Lenin meet his future wife?
(a) In Berlin.
(b) In Zurich.
(c) In Siberia.
(d) In London.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did Trotsky say would be necessary before Russia could have a socialist revolution?

3. How do Marx and Engels describe the proletariat?

4. What was the state of the Russian intelligentsia in the end of the 19th century?

5. According to Marx and Engels, from what did the bourgeoisie and the proletariat originate?

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