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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where was this Russian edition signed?
(a) London
(b) Berlin
(c) Paris
(d) Moscow

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

4. All history has been of struggles between ____________ and exploiting.
(a) Fighting
(b) Moving
(c) Exploited
(d) Working

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) Society
(c) Bourgeois
(d) Proletariat

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is the author of this preface?

3. Who in France, Belgium, Italy, and Spain supported the group in #154?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. In 1847, who were the two kinds of people who were considered socialists?

2. Who was the translator of the first Russian edition of The Communist Manifesto?

3. What drove into the background the social and political aspirations of the European working class?

4. Why does Engels have to re-translate from the Russian version of The Communist Manifesto?

5. What event was The Communist Manifesto supposed to be printed before?

6. What sprang up in the European working class, who had recovered sufficient strength for another attack on the ruling classes?

7. Who found their salvation from the proletarian during the Russian Revolution?

8. Where was The Communist Manifesto first published in English?

9. Whenever independent proletarian movements continued to show signs of life, what happened?

10. First published in Germany, twelve editions are said to be republished in what other countries?

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