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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Chapters 15-16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Marx distinguish between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie in terms of morality?
(a) He says that the proletariat determines the bourgeoisie's morality based on what the bourgeoisie is afraid of.
(b) He says that the bourgeoisie's power subjects the proletariat to the bourgeoisie's morals.
(c) He says that what is right for one class is not right for the other.
(d) He says that the proletariat acknowledges a universal morality, but the bourgeoisie invents its own.

2. How did Marx first hear of Engels?
(a) He met him by chance.
(b) He met him through friends.
(c) Engels sought him out for help with an article.
(d) He read one of his articles.

3. How old was Anatole France at the time of the Commune?
(a) Twenty-seven.
(b) Thirty-seven.
(c) Twenty-one.
(d) Fifty-one.

4. What did Taine believe about the French Revolution?
(a) It was evidence of corrections taking place.
(b) It was the beginning of the Communist Revolution.
(c) It was evidence of a workers' state coming into existence.
(d) It would end in totalitarianism.

5. What was Engels converted to in Cologne?
(a) Political activity.
(b) Protestantism.
(c) Communism.
(d) Catholicism.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who converted Engels in Cologne?

2. How does Edmund Wilson describe Marx's study of economics?

3. What does Edmund Wilson say about the French artists' and intellectuals' engagement with politics after Louis Bonaparte became Emperor in 1851?

4. Where did Friedrich Engels grow up?

5. What did Taine study after 1871, when the Commune was established?

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