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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Marx and Engels were commissioned to write what?
(a) The Anarchist Manifesto.
(b) The Communist Manifesto.
(c) The Cartagena Manifesto.
(d) The Surrealist Manifesto.

2. Karl Marx, or Charles Marx, was a Jewish German who lived when?
(a) From 1828 to 1893.
(b) From 1838 to 1903.
(c) From 1818 to 1883.
(d) From 1808 to 1873.

3. What does this approach do for Rius?
(a) It gives him a chance to study Marx.
(b) It makes him feel good about his work.
(c) It gives him an amount of credibility.
(d) It studying Marx more difficult.

4. How did Marx change while in Paris?
(a) He became less concerned about social issues.
(b) He became more radical.
(c) He became less radical.
(d) He became more interested in governmental affairs.

5. How did Rius learn about Marx?
(a) Through his father.
(b) Through college courses.
(c) Through friends.
(d) Through writing.

6. For whom did Marx and Engels write this?
(a) The League of Nations.
(b) The Communist League.
(c) The Anarchist League.
(d) The Surrealist League.

7. Some of the things indirectly owed to Marx include what?
(a) Unions, scholarships, salaries, and political parties.
(b) Social Security, scholarships, pensions, and unions.
(c) The Republican Party, Social Security, pensions, and big business.
(d) Social Security, pensions, unions, and conservatives.

8. Almost every major change since the last century has what connection?
(a) To democracy.
(b) To socialism.
(c) A connection to Marx.
(d) To communism.

9. How was the answer to number 74 received at the time?
(a) It was received with much acclaim.
(b) It did not create much of a stir.
(c) It was not well-received.
(d) It created much of a stir.

10. How does Rius describe Marx?
(a) As an important thinker.
(b) As very confused.
(c) As an interesting man.
(d) As crazy.

11. The terms "the left" and "the right" were coined when?
(a) About the time of Hegel's first meeting with Kant.
(b) About the time of Hegel's birth.
(c) About the time of Hegel's death.
(d) About the time of Hegel's philosophical studies.

12. What does Rius think about some of Marx's work?
(a) They are interesting;
(b) They are useless.
(c) They are hard to digest and understand,
(d) They are easy to understand.

13. What does Rius believe is worth trying?
(a) Writing a biography about Marx.
(b) Believing Marx.
(c) Studying Marx.
(d) Summarizing Marx.

14. Where was Marx born?
(a) Frankfort, Germany.
(b) Munich, Germany.
(c) Geneva, Switzerland.
(d) Trevirorum, Germany.

15. What happened when Marx became unpopular with European governments?
(a) They sent him to Australia.
(b) They threw him in prison.
(c) France and Brussels expelled him.
(d) They encouraged him to leave the continent.

Short Answer Questions

1. For whom did Engels work for awhile?

2. Others would say that simplifying Marxism down for certain individuals is what?

3. Rius suggests what about non-Communists?

4. With what was Marx charged and then acquitted?

5. What does Rius want to do regarding Marx?

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