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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. Vico suggested that the history of man passes through how many different stages?
(a) Five.
(b) Three.
(c) Six.
(d) Four.

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

3. Why are workers exploited in a capitalist state?
(a) They do not earn the full value of their labor.
(b) They are uneducated.
(c) They are worthless.
(d) They are not intelligent.

4. Capitalism will need to be replaced by what?
(a) A dictatorship.
(b) Democracy.
(c) A form of government that will protect and value the worker.
(d) Socialism.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What assumes the existence of the divine?

2. What states that there is nothing beyond the natural?

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

4. Why is a worker's labor power a commodity in a capitalist state?

5. How did this group of people at this point in human history begin the creation of social classes?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How might a socialist system be practical?

3. How was religion used to keep workers enslaved?

4. How did Marx and Engels get the opportunity to write the Communist Manifesto?

5. What was the Communist Manifesto?

6. What are the ideas of empiricism? Who supported these ideas?

7. What is the importance of competition? What example does Marx give to support this? How does this factor into capitalism?

8. Who are three of Greece's most well-known and important philosophers? Give detailed information about the theories of one of these philosophers.

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

10. How do the foundations of Marx's economic thought begin to come together?

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