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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What drops from tree of industry?

2. What is the question all the movements bring to the front?

3. The socialistic bourgeois want all the ___________ of modern social conditions without the struggles and dangers necessarily resulting therefrom.

4. [The proletariat] have a _________ to win.

5. In almost all of these classes are subordinate ___________.

Short Essay Questions

1. Who do the Communists in France ally themselves with?

2. Why has the work of the proletarians lost all individual character?

3. What is the immediate aim of the Communists?

4. How are the Communists distinguished from the Working class parties?

5. The Communists fight for the attainment of what kinds of aims?

6. What do all of the movements in this section bring to the front as the leading question of each?

7. Who were the precursors of the modern bourgeoisie?

8. What do the authors say is already acknowledged by all the European powers to be itself a power?

9. Define the idea of the proletariat.

10. Define the idea of the bourgeois society and group.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The progression of society is where Marx begins this theories.

Part 1: Describe the progress of society in relation to the development of the class system.

Part 2: What was the previous construct of society that begin to set up the two distinct groups?

Part 3: If society constantly changes, does it seem likely that the class system will also go away one day, just as it developed at one point?

Essay Topic 2

The overall goal of Communism is a bit more complex than it first seems.

Part 1: What seems to be the overall goal of Communism as written in this book?

Part 2: What does Communism want to do with Bourgeois freedoms?

Part 3: How will eliminating individual property advance the goals of Communism?

Essay Topic 3

Though the arguments in The Communist Manifesto are found, the idea of communism is not something that has spread throughout the world.

Part 1: Do you think the argument in this text is strong? How? Why?

Part 2: Why has Communism not been as effective in today's world as Marx envisioned?

Part 3: Do you see Communism as a viable societal construct? Why or why not?

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