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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 5 (pg. 95-123).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Many thinkers were looking for answers about what?
(a) How mankind came to exist.
(b) Mankind and the eternal questions that exist.
(c) How many planets exist in the galaxy.
(d) What has created space.

2. Why does Marx not believe that simply raising the workers' salaries would change the situation for the worker?
(a) The workers do not want more money. They want to work less.
(b) The capitalist will not accept making less profit and will raise prices or find other ways of making sure that the rise in salary does not affect his bottom line.
(c) The capitalists will not raise workers' salaries.
(d) The capitalists will also want a raise.

3. One of the aspects of most religions was a faith in some sort of afterlife. How did the Egyptians believe they had the hope of a better afterlife?
(a) If they put up with slavery during their lives.
(b) If they were wealthy.
(c) If they built a tomb for themselves.
(d) If they treated others well.

4. Why is a worker's labor power a commodity in a capitalist state?
(a) The capitalist is the power.
(b) The capitalist sells the labor power.
(c) The capitalist gives the laborer the power.
(d) The capitalist buys the labor power.

5. He is widely regarded as the founder of what?
(a) Hypocrisy.
(b) Communism.
(c) Democracy.
(d) Socialism.

Short Answer Questions

1. The price of a commodity or product is created through what?

2. The capitalist gets richer, while the worker struggles to keep pace with basic needs. This led Marx to what idea?

3. Hegel suggested that who might be God?

4. To what do Vico's stages correspond?

5. How did this group of people at this point in human history begin the creation of social classes?

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