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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Marx and Engels wonder if the answer to #123 might be able to pass directly to the higher form of communist ______________.
(a) Ideals
(b) Common ownership
(c) Thought
(d) Property sharing

2. 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) German
(d) English

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

4. What is already growing on Marx's grave?
(a) A promise
(b) A rose
(c) First grass
(d) A flower

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

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

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

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

9. Where was the preface of this preface signed?
(a) Paris
(b) London
(c) Moscow
(d) Berlin

10. Where was the Congress of the group in #91 held?
(a) Paris
(b) Berlin
(c) London
(d) Bismarck

11. When was the revolution in Russia?
(a) 1847-49
(b) 1847-48
(c) 1848-49
(d) 1847-50

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

13. Where is Marx buried?
(a) Highgate Cemetery
(b) Westminster
(c) Eiffel Tower
(d) He wasn't

14. What translation of The Communist Manifesto was supposed to be printed in Constantinople but did not occur?
(a) Turkish
(b) Armenian
(c) Greek
(d) Arabian

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

Short Answer Questions

1. An authentic English version of The Communist Manifesto was translated by whom?

2. How long were the members of the group in #150 imprisoned?

3. Where was the first English version of The Communist Manifesto printed?

4. What is the system of Utopian communism in France?

5. On what date was this preface signed?

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