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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. According to Hegel, if the worker obeyed the state, what would happen?
(a) He would find spiritual happiness.
(b) He would one day join the elite class.
(c) He would be protected.
(d) He would earn more money.

2. If power was in the hands of the rich, it is called what?
(a) Democracy.
(b) Intelligarchy.
(c) Plutocracy.
(d) Oligarchy.

3. When does alienation occur?
(a) The making of a company into a machine.
(b) An exploited laborer earns a wage, but the object he makes belongs to someone else, and the worker becomes a machine.
(c) When one becomes isolated.
(d) When one is left alone in a strange land.

4. Marx argued in ________________________ that the more a worker produced, the less he could consume, and the more value a man creates, the less he has.
(a) The Manuscript of 1844.
(b) The Manuscript of 1834.
(c) The Manuscript of 1864.
(d) The Manuscript of 1854.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Giambattista Vico produced some _____________________ during this time, although he is not as well-known.

2. Can capitalism solve the problems of humanity?

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

4. What assumes the existence of the divine?

5. Why does Rius begin by looking at this point in human history?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the ideas of Giambattista Vico?

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

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

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

5. What is meant by materialism becoming mechanistic?

6. What was the Communist Manifesto?

7. What does Marx say about alienation?

8. What can be learned from the information in this chapter?

9. What does Marx say about the capitalist?

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

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