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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is feared will overtake society with the abolition of private property?
(a) Eternal happiness
(b) Universal laziness
(c) Classless people
(d) Loss of jobs

2. Who sees in his wife a mere instrument of production?
(a) Bourgeois
(b) Socialist
(c) Proletarian
(d) Communist

3. When was The Communist Manifesto authored?
(a) 1845
(b) 1848
(c) 1847
(d) 1849

4. Who has simplified class antagonisms?
(a) Bourgeoisie
(b) Leaders
(c) The economy
(d) Proletariat

5. Living labor, to the bourgeoisie, is a means to increase __________ labor.
(a) Peasant
(b) Cheap
(c) Slave
(d) Accumulated

6. Communists of various __________ have assembled.
(a) Positions
(b) Backgrounds
(c) Economies
(d) Nationalites

7. The Petty-bourgeois socialism movement does aim to cramp the modern means of __________.
(a) Bourgeois
(b) Progress
(c) Production
(d) Property

8. How long does Marx say that the bourgeoisie have been ruling?
(a) About 20 years
(b) About 50 years
(c) About 100 years
(d) About 15 years

9. What language was the Communist Manifesto originally published in?
(a) German
(b) English
(c) Spanish
(d) Russian

10. What property does the Communist movement seek to abolish?
(a) High cost
(b) All
(c) Bourgeois
(d) Communal

11. Bourgeois socialism attains adequate ______ when, and only when, it becomes a mere figure of speech.
(a) Peace
(b) Recognition
(c) Relevance
(d) Expression

12. Who was the head of the school of thought called petty-bourgeois socialism?
(a) Marx
(b) Sismondi
(c) Engels
(d) Lenin

13. What is haunting Europe?
(a) Doom
(b) Specter
(c) Apparition
(d) Ghost

14. The work of the German _______ consisted solely in bringing the new French ideas into harmony with their ancient philosophical conscience.
(a) Leaders
(b) Communists
(c) Philosophers
(d) Literati

15. The Communists should openly.....and meet this __________ of the specter of communism.
(a) Fairy tale
(b) Opposition
(c) Revolution
(d) Battle cry

Short Answer Questions

1. In what country do peasants make up more than half the population?

2. The discovery of what opened up fresh ground for the rising bourgeoisie?

3. The medieval burgesses and the small __________ proprietors were the precursors to the modern bourgeoisie.

4. "The Communists are not a special ______ in relation to the other working class parties."

5. Fill in the blank: Where is the __________ that has not hurled back the branding reproach of communism?

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