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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 does Marx say a society based on class destroys?
(a) Working class heroes.
(b) A worker's individuality.
(c) The relationship between men.
(d) Tradition.

2. What did Marx and Engels combine with the goals of the utopian socialists?
(a) Hegel's theory of organic development.
(b) Emerson's theory of self-reliance and consolation.
(c) Goethe's theory of basic building blocks of life.
(d) Darwin's theory of evolution.

3. How does Edmund Wilson describe Marx's study of economics?
(a) As a prediction of communism.
(b) As a prophecy of socialism.
(c) As a study of capitalism.
(d) As a snapshot of Marx's moment.

4. According to Marxist economics, what kind of value does the worker create?
(a) Social value.
(b) Surplus value.
(c) Historical value.
(d) Moral value.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Edmund Wilson describe Anatole France?

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

3. What doctrine influenced both Marx and Engels?

4. According to Marx, what kind of labor do machines contain?

5. How does Edmund Wilson characterize Marx's view of Das Kapital?

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