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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 position did Marx take in 1842?
(a) Editor-in-chief of a newspaper.
(b) Editor of a radical magazine.
(c) Political activist.
(d) Investigative reporter.

2. How does Edmund Wilson characterize Bakunin's career?
(a) He became a close ally of Marx's and was responsible for spreading Marx's ideas internationally.
(b) He made a name for himself as the actor who would fulfill Marx's prophecies.
(c) He spent his life trying to be part of revolutions in Europe.
(d) He wrote extensively, but he never participated in a political movement.

3. How were Fourier and Owen representative of early nineteenth century thinkers?
(a) They did not subscribe to liberal politics.
(b) They espoused liberal political views.
(c) They supported totalitarian leaders.
(d) They wanted a return to law and order.

4. How did Fourier and Owen want to administer education in their ideal society?
(a) It should be provided within the commune.
(b) It should be paid for by students' families.
(c) It should be free and open to all.
(d) It should revert to the apprentice system.

5. What did La Scienza Nuova examine?
(a) The factors that led to the development of societies.
(b) The inevitable lifecycle of imperial cultures.
(c) The factors that determined which species would survive.
(d) The factors that allowed republican nations to turn into empires.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Marx distinguish between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie in terms of morality?

2. What did Fourier and Owen believed about wealth?

3. According to Marxist economics, what kind of value does the worker create?

4. What was the subject of Renan's The Future of Science?

5. How does a dialectical system progress?

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