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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. The aristocracy was not upset that there was a proletariat so much as they were upset there was a ________ proletariat.

2. What does wage labor not create for the laborer?

3. "They have no __________ separate and apart from those of the proletariat as a whole."

4. The _______ and the Czar are some of those who wish to exorcise Communism.

5. The Communists fight for the attainment of the __________ aims.

Short Essay Questions

1. Define the idea of the proletariat.

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

3. List some of the opposing groups that The Communist Manifesto lists in the first pages of this section.

4. Who was the head of the school of petty-bourgeois socialism?

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

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

7. Describe the party that the Poles support.

8. What does reactionary socialism, specifically feudal socialism literature, seek to upbraid the bourgeoisie about?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

Marx talks at length about the different kinds of Communist literature that are available.

Part 1: What are the three main subsets of Communist literature?

Part 2: How are these subsets broken up further?

Part 3: Define each category of literature, what it includes, and its purpose.

Essay Topic 3

Communism is something many people have grown up to fear, rather than to accept.

Part 1: What did this manuscript tell you about Communism that you didn't already know?

Part 2: Have your views of Communism changed? Why or why not?

Part 3: Define Communism as you now understand it after reading this text.

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