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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Rius' simple definition of capitalism?
(a) Someone who works for himself.
(b) Someone buys to sell again at a profit.
(c) Someone who hires employees.
(d) Someone who owns and sells products.

2. Greece produced three of the most well-known and important philosophers. Who were these philosophers?
(a) Plato, Bouwsma, and Zenon Pylyshyn.
(b) Democritus, Vassallo, and Jesús Mosterín.
(c) Aristotle,Parfit, and Plato.
(d) Plato, Democritus, and Aristotle.

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

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

5. The Communist Manifesto was a call for all workers to do what?
(a) Unite against capitalism.
(b) Listen to Marx.
(c) Consider Communism.
(d) Form unions.

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

7. What is meant by mechanistic?
(a) Examining everything from a worker's perspective.
(b) Examining everything from a mechanical point of view.
(c) From the perspective of a worker.
(d) Someone who fixes machinery.

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

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

10. How did philosophy start?
(a) As a study of the birth of man.
(b) As a criticism of supernatural or religious beliefs.
(c) Out of fear of the unknown.
(d) Out of interest in making discoveries about our world.

11. The capitalist figures in the price of production, hidden costs, and his own profit when deciding the value of a product. What keeps the capitalist's profits growing?
(a) The worker's labor power.
(b) The efficiency at which he works.
(c) The increase in interest in the product.
(d) The desire for the product.

12. To what do Vico's stages correspond?
(a) The five stages of human life.
(b) The six stages of human life.
(c) The three stages of human life.
(d) The four stages of human life.

13. Philosophy sees two kinds of men. What are these kinds of men?
(a) Christians or pagans.
(b) Conservative and Liberal.
(c) Realists or dreamers.
(d) Materialist and idealist.

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

15. What does not offer proof for those things that it proposes?
(a) Pagans.
(b) Dreamers.
(c) Idealism.
(d) Liberal.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why would Hegel believe that a worker should not worry about the material?

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

3. Hegel was attacked for these thoughts. Why?

4. The law of supply and demand often determines what?

5. One Marxist theorist argued that by working for a capitalist and producing a commodity, the worker is increasing what?

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