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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The price of a commodity or product is created through what?
(a) Competition.
(b) Natural disasters.
(c) War.
(d) A recession.

2. After the Greek epoch, the so-called Age of Faith occurred during what period?
(a) The Italian Renaissance.
(b) The Middle Ages.
(c) The Ottoman Empire.
(d) The Roman Empire.

3. Why would Hegel believe that a worker should not worry about the material?
(a) The worker does not have the power to change anything.
(b) Worrying does not solve problems.
(c) Only the spiritual matters.
(d) Only the owner should worry.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What increases alienation?

2. To what are Marx's theories leading him?

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

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. For what ideas was Hegel attacked? Why was he attacked?

2. What does Marx say about the capitalist?

3. How was religion used to keep workers enslaved?

4. What are dialectics and the dialectical method?

5. Why does Marx not believe that simply raising the workers' salaries would change the situation?

6. What is surplus value? How does this affect the worker?

7. Describe the French socialists. What did Marx think of these men?

8. Describe an example given by Marx about a capitalist employer.

9. What does Marx say about alienation?

10. What was the Communist Manifesto?

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