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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 does wage labor provide for the bourgeoisie?

2. The class culture merely trains a person to act as a __________.

3. "The __________ of the proletariat will cause them vanish still faster."

4. Let the _________ classes tremble at a communist revolution.

5. Where were the Owenites based?

Short Essay Questions

1. What revolution is given as an example for a society that abolished feudal property?

2. When do the German communists rise up and fight in their land?

3. Who are the powers of old Europe that have entered into a holy alliance in order to exorcise Communism?

4. Whose vocation had it been previously to write pamphlets against the modern bourgeois society?

5. In Switzerland, who do the Communists support?

6. Who were the precursors of the modern bourgeoisie?

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

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

9. What phrases were used to completely emasculate the French socialist and communist literature?

10. Why do the Communists have the advantage over others?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Capitalism, in Marx's opinion, seems to be the root of all evil.

Part 1: Define the idea of capitalism.

Part 2: What makes capitalism something that is necessary in society?

Part 3: How does capitalism hurt society?

Essay Topic 2

The government doesn't seem to be mentioned as a part of the process of changing society in Marx's text.

Part 1: Why do you think government reforms aren't considered to be valid in the process of changing society?

Part 2: In today's world, how could the government step in to change the class structure? Could it?

Part 3: Does the government seem to be a part of the problem of class struggles? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

It seems that Marx wants to make the proletariat the ruling class, but this seems to be contradictory.

Part 1: If the proletariat are the ruling class, how is this different from the society's construct before that change?

Part 2: Does this idea seem to go against Communism?

Part 3: What problems might occur as a result of the proletariat being in charge?

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