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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 was the counter attack of science and reason against religious fanaticism and dogma?
(a) The Middle Ages.
(b) The Romantic Period.
(c) The Neoclassical Period.
(d) The Renaissance.

2. The law of supply and demand often determines what?
(a) The amount of supplies needed.
(b) The price of a product.
(c) The number of laborers needed.
(d) The amount of work required.

3. To what do Vico's stages correspond?
(a) The four stages of human life.
(b) The five stages of human life.
(c) The six stages of human life.
(d) The three stages of human life.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the second stage, according to Vico?

2. Philosophy sees two kinds of men. What are these kinds of men?

3. Capitalism will need to be replaced by what?

4. Can capitalism solve the problems of humanity?

5. Greece produced three of the most well-known and important philosophers. Who were these philosophers?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What was the Communist Manifesto?

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

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

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

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

7. What are Kant's ideas?

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

9. What are dialectics and the dialectical method?

10. What is meant by materialism becoming mechanistic?

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