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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who translated the first English version of The Communist Manifesto?
(a) Samuel Moore
(b) Thomas Moore
(c) Christian Stilton
(d) Helen Mcfarlane

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

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

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

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

7. When was the Congress of the group in #91 held?
(a) 1845
(b) 1848
(c) 1847
(d) 1849

8. 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) English
(c) Russian
(d) German

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

10. What Communist group is referred to in #149?
(a) Upper Crust
(b) Central Board
(c) Ruling Class
(d) Down with Bourgeois

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

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

13. "Marx relied solely on the ___________ development of the working class."
(a) Property
(b) Intellectual
(c) Revolutionary
(d) Capital

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

15. Where is this person in #119 now residing?
(a) Greticha
(b) Gatchina
(c) Gallows
(d) Graveyard

Short Answer Questions

1. Where were the proletariat first able to hold political power?

2. "It was still a ______, only instinctive and frequently somewhat crude communism."

3. 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."

4. The President of the English trades unions said: "Continental socialism has lost its _____ for us."

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

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