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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. What in particular appalled Engels about the workers' conditions?
(a) Their accidents and illnesses.
(b) Their subservience to the masters.
(c) Their cruelty to each other.
(d) Their lack of education.

2. What work did Engels have to finish when Marx died?
(a) "The Condition of the Working Class in England."
(b) "Das Kapital."
(c) Explaining Marx's theory to the socialists.
(d) Defining the master-slave dialectic.

3. How does Edmund Wilson characterize for Taine the difference between history and science?
(a) There was no way to measure quantities in history.
(b) There was no certainty about history.
(c) There was no perspective to observe outside of historical events.
(d) There was no experimenting in history.

4. What industrial facility did Engels grow up across the river from?
(a) A bottling plant.
(b) An iron works.
(c) A textile factory.
(d) A coal mine.

5. How does Edmund Wilson characterize Marx's view of Das Kapital?
(a) He says that Marx saw it as a work of art.
(b) He says that Marx saw it as a rebellion against his parents' culture.
(c) He says that Marx saw it as a new testament in Christian religion.
(d) He says that Marx saw it as monument to workers' sufferings.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Marx's fundamental critique of capitalists?

2. Where were most French artists and thinkers living in the early 1850s?

3. What did Taine believe about the French Revolution?

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

5. Who converted Engels in Cologne?

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