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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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) German
(c) Russian
(d) Danish

4. Who hunted out a large Communist group in Cologne?
(a) Russian police
(b) French guards
(c) English mobs
(d) Prussian police

5. The proletariat can no longer free itself from the bonds of its place without at the "same time forever freeing the whole of __________ from exploitation, oppression, and class struggles."
(a) Man
(b) Bourgeois
(c) Proletariat
(d) Society

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

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

8. Who is the international association of workers mentioned in the beginning of this section?
(a) The Communist League
(b) The Communist Organization
(c) The Worldwide Association of Communists
(d) The Socialist Party

9. What has gone astray as Engels writes this preface?
(a) The Russian translator
(b) A large portion of Marx's writings
(c) The original German manuscript
(d) An English version

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

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

12. When was this preface signed?
(a) March 1
(b) April 1
(c) December 7
(d) May 1

13. All history has been of struggles between dominated and dominating class at various states of _________ development.
(a) Spiritual
(b) Political
(c) Social
(d) Ethnic

14. The small and middle land ownership of the farmers is succumbing to the ______ of giant farms.
(a) Growth
(b) Competition
(c) Production values
(d) Machinery

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is not a country in which The Communist Manifesto was published?

3. The Communist Manifesto seeks to dissolve modern __________ property.

4. The Manuscript of The Communist Manifesto was to be printed a few weeks before what?

5. Where is Marx buried?

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