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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was this preface created?
(a) June 24
(b) June 25
(c) March 15
(d) July 24

2. Economic production and the structure of society of every historical _______ necessarily arising therefrom....
(a) Element
(b) Angle
(c) Understanding
(d) Epoch

3. In what year was the first English version of The Communist Manifesto printed?
(a) 1847
(b) 1850
(c) 1849
(d) 1851

4. What did the United States and Russia provide for Europe?
(a) Literature
(b) Example
(c) Raw materials
(d) Advice

5. When was the group in #150 tried?
(a) October 1851
(b) October 1852
(c) September 1852
(d) July 1847

6. Where was this Russian edition signed?
(a) Berlin
(b) Paris
(c) Moscow
(d) London

7. "But then, the Manifesto has become a ____________ document, which we have no longer any right to alter."
(a) Truthful
(b) Awe-inspiring
(c) Historical
(d) Maginificent

8. Who owned the Red Republican?
(a) Karl Marx
(b) Geroge Julian Harney
(c) John Smith
(d) Friedrich Engels

9. Who created the basic running thought of the Manifesto?
(a) Engels
(b) Marx
(c) Marx and Engels
(d) Neither

10. Which translation is described as - not quite complete; certain essential passages, which seem to have presented difficulties to the translator, have been omitted?
(a) Danish
(b) Russian
(c) English
(d) German

11. Where was a Russian translation published in the sixties?
(a) Poland
(b) Lithuania
(c) Geneva
(d) Moscow

12. How many (at least) different editions of The Communist Manifesto have been republished in German?
(a) 20
(b) 15
(c) 10
(d) 12

13. "We could not have called it a _____________ manifesto."
(a) Truthful
(b) Old
(c) Socialist
(d) New

14. This basic thought belongs solely and exclusively to ___________.
(a) Stalin
(b) Lenin
(c) Marx
(d) Engels

15. Where were the proletariat first able to hold political power?
(a) Berlin Mass
(b) Paris Commune
(c) Paris Congress
(d) Munich Order

Short Answer Questions

1. When the European working class had recovered sufficient strength for another attack on the ruling classes, the ___________ sprang up.

2. Marx and Engels wonder if the answer to #123 might be able to pass directly to the higher form of communist ______________.

3. On what date was this preface signed?

4. When the Manifesto was translated into English in New York, where was it published?

5. Who absorbed the surplus proletarian forces of Europe?

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