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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 had Marx become now that Germany had expelled him?

2. Who did Marx's activities continue to upset?

3. What did Rius want to do regarding Marx?

4. Marx was most attracted to which of Hegel's philosophies?

5. Many thinkers were looking for answers about what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the purpose of this book?

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

3. What did Marx study in Berlin? How did this suit his personality? How did his father feel about this?

4. What else did Marx write?

5. How did Marx use his poverty to his advantage?

6. What can be said about Marx's influence on the world?

7. Describe Marx's existence.

8. What is the significant of Marx?

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

10. What is known about Marx's relationship with Jenny Von Westphalen?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Marx and Engel wrote the Communist Manifesto.

Part 1) What is the Communist Manifesto? Why did they write it?

Part 2) How does this Manifesto reflect other philosophers works? How might it have influenced philosophers after Marx and Engels?

Part 3) How important is this Manifesto in Marx's career and title as the founder of Communism?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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