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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. According to Edmund Wilson's account, why didn't Marx and Engels consider Russia as a site of the first revolution?
(a) Russia had industrialized very quickly, bringing prosperity to the masses.
(b) Russia's economy was agricultural.
(c) Russia did not have fiery leaders to spark a revolution.
(d) Russia had already transitioned from feudalism to capitalism without a war.

2. What was the subject of Renan's The Future of Science?
(a) Technology and science in religion.
(b) Philosophy in economics.
(c) Morality and faith in society.
(d) Conflict in scientific communities.

3. What did Taine believe about the French Revolution?
(a) It was evidence of a workers' state coming into existence.
(b) It was evidence of corrections taking place.
(c) It was the beginning of the Communist Revolution.
(d) It would end in totalitarianism.

4. According to the author, what was the result of the French Revolution?
(a) The church acquired large amounts of land.
(b) Wealth was concentrated in a few hands.
(c) Private property was abolished in many places.
(d) The people acquired vast political power.

5. Where does stability come from in dialectic materialism?
(a) The consensus among involved parties.
(b) The fusion of thesis and antithesis.
(c) The seizure of power by a faction that can hold it.
(d) The emergence of a new power.

Short Answer Questions

1. How were Marx' early writings received?

2. How does Edmund Wilson describe Anatole France?

3. What thinker did Marx return to after he broke with Proudhon?

4. What did Michelet study in history?

5. How do Marx and Engels describe the bourgeoisie?

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