View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did the Danish edition of The Communist Manifesto occur?
(a) 1887
(b) 1888
(c) 1885
(d) 1884

2. Who is the author of this preface?
(a) Lenin
(b) Marx
(c) Moore
(d) Engels

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the Parisian insurrection defeated?

2. When the Manifesto was translated into English in New York, where was it published?

3. Shortly before the June insurrection of 1849, where did a French version of The Communist Manifesto appear?

4. Where was a Russian translation published in the sixties?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe the burial of the answer to #43, as described by the remaining author.

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

4. Who was the international association of workers which could only be a secret one under conditions at the time?

5. What was the aim of the International Working Men's Association?

6. What is the state of land ownership in Russia?

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

8. Why didn't the publisher in Constantinople publish the Armenian translation of The Communist Manifesto?

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

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

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 526 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample