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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. What states that there is nothing beyond the natural?
(a) Christians.
(b) Conservative.
(c) Realists.
(d) Materialism.

2. Marx wanted to create explanations without including who?
(a) Man.
(b) God.
(c) A leader.
(d) A philosopher.

3. Rius argues that the various movements and revolutions that have happened since Marx's time point to what?
(a) An increasingly shaky capitalism.
(b) An increasingly shaky socialism.
(c) An increasingly strong capitalism.
(d) No change in either capitalism or socialism.

4. As the worker is not paid enough to meet his basic needs, he is forced to do what?
(a) Quit.
(b) Change jobs.
(c) Continue working at the low wage.
(d) Go on strike.

5. The coalition can gain even more ground by doing what?
(a) Entering the political realm as a political party.
(b) Gaining more members.
(c) Becoming more organized.
(d) Starting more unions.

Short Answer Questions

1. What assumes the existence of the divine?

2. Vico suggested that the history of man passes through how many different stages?

3. What can make a difference in the workers' situation?

4. What does Marx do with Hegel and Feurerbach's theories?

5. What is Vico's first stage?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What does Marx say about alienation?

6. What does Marx say about the capitalist?

7. How does Rius begin to examine the roots of Marxism?

8. What are dialectics and the dialectical method?

9. What took place after the Greek epoch? Describe this period of time.

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

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