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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Hegel's predecessor wanted to separate science from religion. What did Hegel want to do?
(a) Make religion very different from science.
(b) Make religion into a science.
(c) Make science into religion.
(d) Make science separate from religion.

2. Why was Jenny's father concerned about her marrying Marx?
(a) He did not like Marx's ideas.
(b) He was very wealthy and well-known.
(c) He had no money or work.
(d) He did not believe Marx loved his daughter.

3. 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) Social Security, pensions, unions, and conservatives.
(d) The Republican Party, Social Security, pensions, and big business.

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

5. For whom did Engels work for awhile?
(a) Marx.
(b) His brother.
(c) His uncle.
(d) His father.

6. How might Rius describe Marx's many works?
(a) Strange.
(b) Great.
(c) Boring.
(d) Dangerous.

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

8. This book is to be ___________________ of Marx.
(a) A useless example.
(b) A sample digest.
(c) A complete study.
(d) A thorough examination.

9. 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 death.
(c) About the time of Hegel's birth.
(d) About the time of Hegel's philosophical studies.

10. On what did Engels write a piece for the "Annuals?"
(a) Economics and condition of the working poor.
(b) The organization of the wealthy.
(c) The artisans of the textile industry.
(d) The benefits of wealth.

11. From Bonn University, Marx moved where to finish his studies?
(a) Frankfort.
(b) Munich.
(c) Berlin.
(d) Paris.

12. To whom does Rius hope to present this summary?
(a) Only intellectuals.
(b) A broader audience.
(c) Only Marxists.
(d) Only professors of economics.

13. What does Rius hope the reader will eventually do?
(a) Fight capitalism.
(b) Encourage communism.
(c) Try to tackle Marx's actual works.
(d) Become a Marxist.

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

15. Rius argues that Marx has done what?
(a) Made the world a complicated place.
(b) Made the world a scarier place.
(c) Made the world a better place.
(d) Made the world a simpler place.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where were these terms located?

2. How might Rius' approach to Marxism be described?

3. How many of Marx's five children die from lack of medication?

4. Back in Germany, what did Marx begin with Engels?

5. Marx was Jewish. Did he consider himself Jewish?

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