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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. The Russian edition of The Communist Manifesto was published in the early sixties by the printing office of the ________.
(a) Kokol
(b) Kronos
(c) Kolokol
(d) Kokp

4. Since his death, there can be even _____ thought of revising or supplementing the Manifesto.
(a) More
(b) Serious
(c) Less
(d) Less serious

5. How much time has elapsed since that last edition of The Communist Manifesto?
(a) 20 years
(b) 5 years
(c) 25 years
(d) 10 years

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

7. "Whenever independent proletarian movements continued to show signs of life, they were ruthlessly _____________.
(a) Supported
(b) Hunted down
(c) Ignored
(d) Chastised

8. The basic ______ running through the Manifesto is because of __________.
(a) Ideas, Commnism
(b) Thought, Marx
(c) Thought, Engels
(d) Idea, Marx and Engels

9. What is one of the countries missing from this section from #111 in the Manifesto?
(a) Poland
(b) Russia
(c) England
(d) Germany

10. What are the European and American proletariat working to gain at the time of this preface?
(a) 8 hour working day
(b) Lunch hours
(c) 15 minutes breaks
(d) Safe working conditions

11. How long were the members of the group in #150 imprisoned?
(a) 18 months
(b) 1 year
(c) They weren't
(d) 2 years

12. What is not a country in which The Communist Manifesto was published?
(a) Spain
(b) England
(c) America
(d) Germany

13. "No special stress if laid on the ___________ measures proposed..."
(a) Working
(b) Property
(c) Lifelong
(d) Revolutionary

14. More than half the land in common in Russia is held by whom?
(a) The peasants
(b) The bourgeois
(c) The proletariat
(d) The government

15. An authentic English version of The Communist Manifesto was translated by whom?
(a) Benjamin Franklin
(b) Samuel Moore
(c) Thomas Stansfield
(d) Karl Smith

Short Answer Questions

1. What fitted North America for a gigantic agricultural production?

2. What has gone astray as Engels writes this preface?

3. How many (at least) different editions of The Communist Manifesto have been republished in German?

4. Who translated the second Russian translation of The Communist Manifesto?

5. Who absorbed the surplus proletarian forces of Europe?

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