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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Rius examines the roots of Marxism. At what does he begin by looking?
(a) The Book of Genesis.
(b) Neanderthals.
(c) The Middle Ages.
(d) Early man.

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

5. Why does Marx not believe that simply raising the workers' salaries would change the situation for the worker?
(a) The capitalists will also want a raise.
(b) The workers do not want more money. They want to work less.
(c) The capitalists will not raise workers' salaries.
(d) 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.

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

7. What increases alienation?
(a) Private ownership.
(b) The lack of support groups.
(c) The lack of ownership.
(d) Fear.

8. The dialectical method views everything as ____________________.
(a) Unchanging.
(b) Changing.
(c) Unique.
(d) Replaceable.

9. Many, such as Socrates, were ___________________ for their views.
(a) Persecuted.
(b) Ignored.
(c) Praised.
(d) Ridiculed.

10. Marx is a materialist and his work attempts to bring more consistency to _______________.
(a) Materialism.
(b) Conservative.
(c) Realists.
(d) Christians.

11. How did Spinoza think of God?
(a) As a spiritual principle.
(b) As the Almighty.
(c) As a leader of men.
(d) As a myth.

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

13. What did Hegel fail to see that still existed in society?
(a) The wealthy.
(b) The uneducated.
(c) The oppression and exploitation.
(d) The poor.

14. 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 built a tomb for themselves.
(b) If they treated others well.
(c) If they were wealthy.
(d) If they put up with slavery during their lives.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the only solution to Engels and Marx for fixing humanity's problems?

2. The coalition can gain even more ground by doing what?

3. The Communist Manifesto was a call for all workers to do what?

4. How did philosophy start?

5. If power was in the hands of the rich, it is called what?

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