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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the counter attack of science and reason against religious fanaticism and dogma?
(a) The Neoclassical Period.
(b) The Middle Ages.
(c) The Romantic Period.
(d) The Renaissance.

2. Descartes used a _______________ logic to examine the world.
(a) Materialistic.
(b) Critical.
(c) Subject.
(d) Analytic.

3. Can capitalism solve the problems of humanity?
(a) Yes.
(b) No.
(c) Some day.
(d) Possibly.

4. Marx wanted to create explanations without including who?
(a) God.
(b) A leader.
(c) Man.
(d) A philosopher.

5. In Europe, who was one individual who did advocate for rebellion against the church and its dictatorship?
(a) Machiavelli.
(b) Da Vinci.
(c) Van Gogh.
(d) Newton.

6. Marx's theories were leading him away from what?
(a) Pure philosophy.
(b) His original beliefs.
(c) Practical philosophy.
(d) His predecessors.

7. Seeing the world as mechanical is also known as what?
(a) Mechanism.
(b) Metaphysical.
(c) Matriarchal.
(d) Maniachal.

8. What does alienation do to men?
(a) It makes them worthless to an employee.
(b) It causes depression.
(c) It causes fear in them.
(d) It both degrades and depersonalizes them.

9. As the worker is not paid enough to meet his basic needs, he is forced to do what?
(a) Continue working at the low wage.
(b) Quit.
(c) Go on strike.
(d) Change jobs.

10. With this philosophy of seeing everything as mechanical, things are immutable or _____________________.
(a) Changing.
(b) Unchanging.
(c) Usually changing.
(d) Rarely changing.

11. What can make a difference in the workers' situation?
(a) Insurance.
(b) Better pay.
(c) Unions.
(d) Shorter work hours.

12. Communism was defined as what?
(a) The emanipation of the simple-minded.
(b) The equality of all the intelligent.
(c) The freedom of all.
(d) The emancipation of the proletariet.

13. The law of supply and demand often determines what?
(a) The number of laborers needed.
(b) The amount of work required.
(c) The price of a product.
(d) The amount of supplies needed.

14. Increasing the efficiency of the work and the worker's productive output does what?
(a) Puts money in the capitalist's wallet and not the hands of the worker.
(b) Puts money in the hands of the workers.
(c) Puts money in the hands of both the capitalist and the worker.
(d) Causes more stress on the worker.

15. The term from number 116 comes from Greek where it means what?
(a) Placed beyond physics.
(b) Led by females.
(c) Evil.
(d) Machinery.

Short Answer Questions

1. Marx and Engels used dialectics. What are dialectics?

2. 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?

3. Greece produced three of the most well-known and important philosophers. Who were these philosophers?

4. What seeks scientific proof for what it examines, including religion?

5. What does Marx do with Hegel and Feurerbach's theories?

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