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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author seem to think about his book?

2. Back in Germany, what did Marx begin with Engels?

3. How did Engels and Marx become friends?

4. Did Marx's works receive wide acclaim during his lifetime?

5. How many economic and philosophic terms did Marx produce?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do many people think of Rius' attempt to summarize Marxism?

2. Who was Hegel? How was Marx influenced by him?

3. Why is Marx important to the author?

4. Is Rius attempting to be prove himself to be a Marx scholar?

5. What do many think of Marx's works? How did his works affect others?

6. What gives Rius an amount of credibility?

7. Describe the creation of Capital.

8. Describe Marx's existence.

9. What is the significant of Marx?

10. For whom is this book written?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Empiricism existed before Marxism.

Part 1) What is empiricism? How did this belief come to exist?

Part 2) How did men like Locke and Hume support this idea of empiricism? How did their beliefs, in turn, affect the leaders during their time?

Part 3) What role did empiricism play in the history of our own country?

Essay Topic 2

Karl Marx was a Jewish German.

Part 1) Why did he not consider himself a Jew? With what religious organization was he once affiliated? Why might this have changed?

Part 2) If he had been raised in a different religion or church, could he have grown up as a religious person? Why or why not?

Part 3) How do his feelings towards religion affect his political beliefs?

Essay Topic 3

Marx's major work was Capital.

Part 1) What is Capital? How is this a major work?

Part 2) Can this truly be considered a work entirely by Marx? Why or why not?

Part 3) What other works were completed by Marx? How might they have influenced the writing of Capital?

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