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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 Fourier and Owen believe about the relationship between groups and society?
(a) There should be perfect freedom of mobility throughout a society, no matter how large.
(b) There should be small communes, then larger communities, then regional societies, then a loosely-affiliated confederacy. There should be absolute rule by an all-powerful monarch.
(c) There should be small, limited societies within the greater society.
(d) There should be absolute rule by an all-powerful monarch.

2. What in particular appalled Engels about the workers' conditions?
(a) Their subservience to the masters.
(b) Their lack of education.
(c) Their accidents and illnesses.
(d) Their cruelty to each other.

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

4. What affect did Lassalle have on the relationship between Marx and Engels?
(a) He brought them closer together.
(b) He played them against each other.
(c) He clarified their differences.
(d) He strained it.

5. What does Edmund Wilson say Taine tried to represent in his history?
(a) The underlying economic laws that regulated French life.
(b) The underlying spiritual development in French culture.
(c) The reality of the France in which he lived.
(d) The pattern on the loom of French nationalist literature.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Marx and Engels view their theory of history?

2. What thinker did Marx return to after he broke with Proudhon?

3. According to the author, what happened to the bourgeoisie after the French Revolution?

4. How does Edmund Wilson describe Marx and Engels' doctrine for intervention in human affairs?

5. Where was Engels working while he and Marx were writing articles together?

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