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

2. Where did Friedrich Engels grow up?
(a) Stuttgart, Germany.
(b) Zurich, Switzerland.
(c) Salzburg, Austria.
(d) Barmen, Germany.

3. What did Taine study after 1871, when the Commune was established?
(a) Politics and economics.
(b) Philosophy and language.
(c) Science and religion.
(d) Mysticism and spirituality.

4. What does Marx say a society based on class prevents?
(a) Class warfare.
(b) A recognition of universal rights.
(c) Abuses of workers' rights.
(d) Solidarity between workers from different nations.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What in particular appalled Engels about the workers' conditions?

2. What was Taine distancing himself from in his work?

3. How does Marx define labor?

4. How does Edmund Wilson describe Anatole France?

5. How did Engels characterize classical economic theories?

(see the answer key)

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