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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When the European working class had recovered sufficient strength for another attack on the ruling classes, the ___________ sprang up.
(a) The International Red Stronghold
(b) International Working Men's Association
(c) Communist League
(d) Communist Workers

2. All history has been a history of __________ struggles.
(a) Property
(b) Working
(c) Class
(d) Ownership

3. The Manuscript of The Communist Manifesto was to be printed a few weeks before what?
(a) The Marching Revolution
(b) The Final Revolution
(c) The February Revolution
(d) The March Revolution

4. The proletariat can no longer ____________ itself from the class which exploits and oppresses it.
(a) Emancipate
(b) Distinguish
(c) Separate
(d) Free

5. The President of the English trades unions said: "Continental socialism has lost its _____ for us."
(a) Terror
(b) Usefulness
(c) Movement
(d) Appeal

6. How long did the International Working Men's Association exist?
(a) 10 years
(b) 1 year
(c) 9 years
(d) 9 months

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

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

9. When the Manifesto was translated into English in New York, where was it published?
(a) The Red Press News
(b) Woodhill and Claflin's Weekly
(c) New Yorker Magazine
(d) Communism Daily

10. Where was the Spanish translation published?
(a) Valencia
(b) Lisbon
(c) Madrid
(d) Barcelona

11. The Communist Manifesto seeks to dissolve modern __________ property.
(a) Common
(b) Proletariat
(c) Farming
(d) Bourgeois

12. Where was the New York version of The Communist Manifesto printed?
(a) New York Minute
(b) New York Times
(c) Le Socialiste
(d) New Yorker Magazine

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the Danish edition of The Communist Manifesto occur?

2. "But then, the Manifesto has become a ____________ document, which we have no longer any right to alter."

3. Who was proclaimed the chief of European reaction?

4. On what date was this preface signed?

5. What is the Russian form of primeval common ownership of land called?

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