View a FREE sample

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is not a country in which The Communist Manifesto was published?

2. The small and middle land ownership of the farmers is succumbing to the ______ of giant farms.

3. What is one of the countries missing from this section from #111 in the Manifesto?

4. What version in 1886 is considered by Engels to be the best published translation to date?

5. Who in Germany supported the group in #154?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the date of this preface's signing?

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

3. Where did the proletariat for the first time hold political power for two whole months?

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

5. Why isn't the Danish translation complete?

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

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

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

9. What does this preface have to say that all history has been?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The main instruction of The Communist Manifesto seems to be that workers need to start a revolution.

Part 1: Define the idea of revolution, what it means to the workers and to their cause.

Part 2: Why is revolution the only way to create change?

Part 3: Do you agree with the idea of revolution? Why or why not? What other options are available?

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

The idea of class being the root of all troubles is one that Marx describes at length.

Part 1: Define the idea of class in society then and now.

Part 2: What does class structure do to cause the trouble that Marx feels needs to be changed?

Part 3: Why is class structure so important to the argument for Communism?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 549 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample