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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 did Hegel fail to see that still existed in society?
(a) The wealthy.
(b) The uneducated.
(c) The poor.
(d) The oppression and exploitation.

2. What does Marx do with Hegel and Feurerbach's theories?
(a) He ridicules them.
(b) He throws them out.
(c) He takes them and produces something new.
(d) He abandons them.

3. Can capitalism solve the problems of humanity?
(a) No.
(b) Possibly.
(c) Yes.
(d) Some day.

4. Many, such as Socrates, were ___________________ for their views.
(a) Praised.
(b) Ridiculed.
(c) Ignored.
(d) Persecuted.

5. Descartes used a _______________ logic to examine the world.
(a) Critical.
(b) Analytic.
(c) Materialistic.
(d) Subject.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was Ludwig Feuerbach?

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

4. How did Spinoza think of God?

5. With this philosophy of seeing everything as mechanical, things are immutable or _____________________.

Short Essay Questions

1. How was religion used to keep workers enslaved?

2. What are dialectics and the dialectical method?

3. Who was Ludwig Feuerbach?

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

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

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

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

8. Who are the two types of men philosophy sees? Describe these two types.

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

10. How might a socialist system be practical?

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