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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. According to Marx, what kind of labor do machines contain?
(a) Frozen labor.
(b) Magnified labor.
(c) Divine labor.
(d) Eternally renewed labor.

2. What does Edmund Wilson say about the French artists' and intellectuals' engagement with politics after Louis Bonaparte became Emperor in 1851?
(a) They wanted to preserve the old feudal system of patronage.
(b) They were deeply committed to fighting for the workers.
(c) They wanted to create their own republic.
(d) They were not interested.

3. What kind of approach toward the study of economics did Marx take?
(a) Scientific.
(b) Pragmatic.
(c) Literary.
(d) Religious.

4. Marx's study of economics contains a discrepancy because he included _______.
(a) Statistics in predicting class warfare.
(b) Pragmatism in defining group psychology.
(c) Morality in predicting economic behavior.
(d) Religion in making a mathematical argument.

5. How did Engels characterize classical economic theories?
(a) As obsolete relative to new technologies for production.
(b) As mere meditations on capital, without grounds in reality.
(c) As mathematical abstractions out of touch with the finances of poverty.
(d) As rationalizations for capitalists' greed.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Friedrich Engels grow up?

2. What did "The Condition of the Working Class in England" do for Marx?

3. What does Edmund Wilson say Taine tried to represent in his history?

4. What does Marx say a society based on class prevents?

5. What industrial facility did Engels grow up across the river from?

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