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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. From what does this type of value come?
(a) Putting something else of value into the commodity.
(b) Putting someone else of value into the commodity.
(c) Taking something else of value out of the commodity.
(d) Putting knowledgeable people of value into the commodity.

3. What is Vico's first stage?
(a) Barbarism.
(b) Farmer.
(c) Hunter gatherer.
(d) Feudalism.

4. Who was Xenophanes?
(a) One of the first muscians of recorded history.
(b) An inventor.
(c) One of the first philosophers of recorded history.
(d) An early teacher.

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

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

7. What was Ludwig Feuerbach?
(a) A materialist, but metaphysical.
(b) An idealist.
(c) A socialist.
(d) A materialist.

8. A group of the intellectuals thought the means of production needed to be destroyed and that individuals should do what?
(a) Go back to being slaves.
(b) Go back to being artisans and farmers.
(c) Go back to being in small family groups.
(d) Go back to being hunters and gatherers.

9. Hegel was attacked for these thoughts. Why?
(a) Largely because his beliefs went against more powerful individuals.
(b) Largely because he was considered insane.
(c) Largely because he used the dialectical method.
(d) Largely because he was wrong.

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

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

12. If power was in the hands of the people, it was what?
(a) Intelligarchy.
(b) Plutocracy.
(c) Oligarchy.
(d) Democracy.

13. Aristotle argued that social conflict occurred because of what reason?
(a) Economic and social inequality.
(b) Differing beliefs among people.
(c) Fate.
(d) Varying levels of intelligence.

14. What seeks scientific proof for what it examines, including religion?
(a) Materialism.
(b) Conservative.
(c) Realists.
(d) Christians.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. As the worker is not paid enough to meet his basic needs, he is forced to do what?

2. Can capitalism solve the problems of humanity?

3. Absolute liberty was reached through what, according to Hegel?

4. Who were the individuals who tried to find logical explanations for natural events?

5. In Europe, who was one individual who did advocate for rebellion against the church and its dictatorship?

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