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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Marx began to work with Proudhon, who had written _____________.
(a) Political prophecies.
(b) Newspaper articles on the working poor.
(c) A series of essays on capital.
(d) A book treating property as a form of theft.

2. When did Lenin break with the Central Committee in Germany?
(a) 1908.
(b) 1917.
(c) 1906.
(d) 1904.

3. Where did Lenin move after being released from prison?
(a) Zurich.
(b) London.
(c) Munich.
(d) Moscow.

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

5. According to Trotsky, why did the 1905 revolt fail?
(a) The Soviets were outgunned.
(b) The bourgeoisie swung their support behind the Tsar.
(c) The aristocrats played the peasants against the workers.
(d) The peasants in the army remained loyal to the Tsar.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did "The Condition of the Working Class in England" do for Marx?

3. How do Marx and Engels describe the proletariat?

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

5. What had Russia still not experienced by the end of the 19th century?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Marx and Engels describe the stages of economic development?

2. What are the ten points addressed in the Communist Manifesto?

3. How does Edmund Wilson say Marx thought about Das Kapital?

4. How did Marx approach the question of studying capitalism?

5. Describe the environment where Engels grew up.

6. Describe Ferdinand Lassalle's career.

7. What was Bakunin's relationship with Marx?

8. Describe the relationship between Lenin and Trotsky.

9. How does dialectical materialism correlate to economic phenomena?

10. What effect did Marx have on Engels?

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