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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 this approach do for Rius?

2. Who was ruthlessly exploited?

3. Almost every major change since the last century has what connection?

4. Where was Marx born?

5. For whom did Marx and Engels write this?

Short Essay Questions

1. For whom is this book written?

2. Describe the creation of Capital.

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

4. Who is Frederick Engels?

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

6. How did journalism change because of Marx?

7. Why can Rius not cover all of Marx's terms? What does he attempt to do instead?

8. What do people think of Marx?

9. How might the world be different without Marx?

10. What else did Marx write?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Marx concerned himself less with making a living than asking the meaning of life.

Part 1) Why was he not concerned about making a living? How did this affect his life?

Part 2) Is this desire to contemplate the meaning of life and disregard making a living due to environmental influences or hereditary influences?

Part 3) If Marx had been born in a different era, could he have had other interests and desires? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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