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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Chapters 1-2.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. According to Wilson, why did the theory by Marx and Engels create "strange situations"?
(a) Their theory blinded them to certain kinds of evidence.
(b) The manifesto for the workers' freedom bound them to a formula for political engagement.
(c) They made themselves famous and wealthy advocating for the workers' rights.
(d) They were using historical theory to decide their positions on cultural phenomena.

4. What language did Michelet NOT read?
(a) Greek.
(b) German.
(c) Latin.
(d) Spanish.

5. How is the "Communist Manifesto" described?
(a) A legal defense of a workers' revolution.
(b) A post-revolutionary society.
(c) The methods a revolutionary party should employ.
(d) The tools for bringing a revolution.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Michelet say about the French Revolution?

2. How did Marx review Proudhon's book on private property?

3. How does Edmund Wilson describe Ferdinand Lassalle?

4. What was the French Enlightenment doctrine that inspired both Fourier and Owen?

5. In what mental/emotional state did Lenin find the Russian intellectuals at the turn of the century?

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