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

2. What did Engels see as a sign of the workers' poor working conditions?
(a) Their lack of gaiety.
(b) Their poverty.
(c) Their religiousness.
(d) Their productivity.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Marx's study of economics contains a discrepancy because he included _______.

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

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

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

5. According to Marxist economics, what kind of value does the worker create?

(see the answer key)

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