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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 Rius hope the reader will eventually do?

2. To whom does Rius hope to present this summary?

3. With what was Marx charged and then acquitted?

4. Who often helped Marx out financially?

5. This book is to be ___________________ of Marx.

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the author describe Marx's works?

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

3. For whom is this book written?

4. Why is Marx important to the author?

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

6. How did Engels and Marx meet and become friends?

7. About whom is this book? Describe some background information about him.

8. What is the significant of Marx?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The Age of Faith occurred during the Middle Ages.

Part 1) What is the Age of Faith? Why did it occur?

Part 2) How did it affect philosophers? What occurred as a reaction to this Age of Faith? How did this occur?

Part 3) How are both the Age of Faith and the response to the Age of Faith seen today?

Essay Topic 2

Descartes and Spinoza were great philosophers of the Seventeenth Century.

Part 1) Describe both philosophers. How were they great?

Part 2) How did the both view humanity? Do you agree? Why or why not?

Part 3) How were they both wrong? How does this affect their overall beliefs? Does this affect their validity as philosophers? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

Through Lenin, Marx's ideas reach a world audience.

Part 1) Who was Lenin? How did he use Marx's work? Why did he use Marx's work?

Part 2) Why was Marx relatively unknown during his lifetime? How then did his ideas become popular and well-known through Lenin?

Part 3) How did Lenin both help and hurt Marx's philosophies?

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