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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. How long did the communist government last in Paris after Michelet had his stroke?
(a) Five months.
(b) Five years.
(c) Two and a half months.
(d) Ten months.

2. Where did Marx grow up?
(a) Munich.
(b) Trier.
(c) Berlin.
(d) Dusseldorf.

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

4. According to the author, what ended with the French Revolution?
(a) Capitalism.
(b) Religion.
(c) Feudalism.
(d) Communism.

5. Who converted Engels in Cologne?
(a) Michelet.
(b) Marx.
(c) Saint-Simon.
(d) Hess.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did La Scienza Nuova examine?

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

3. What kind of approach toward the study of economics did Marx take?

4. Where did the "dialectic" in dialectic materialism come from?

5. What was Lassalle's relationship with the communists, according to Edmund Wilson's account?

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