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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Chapters 5-6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What character trait does Edmund Wilson see in both Fourier and Owen?
(a) Admiration for technology.
(b) Totalitarianism.
(c) Abhorrence for cruelty.
(d) Intolerance for weakness.

2. According to the author, Saint-Simon viewed society's goals as changing ______________.
(a) From production and consumption to war and conquest.
(b) From communal power to individual power.
(c) From community and church to production and consumption.
(d) From war for conquest to war for annihilation.

3. Where did Owen put his idealistic notions into practice?
(a) In Fruitlands.
(b) In Utopia.
(c) In New Lanark.
(d) In Brook Farm.

4. According to Marxist economics, what kind of value does the worker create?
(a) Surplus value.
(b) Moral value.
(c) Social value.
(d) Historical value.

5. What kind of approach toward the study of economics did Marx take?
(a) Pragmatic.
(b) Literary.
(c) Scientific.
(d) Religious.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was Marx placed under police surveillance at the university?

2. How does Edmund Wilson describe Taine's approach to history?

3. According to Marx, what kind of labor do machines contain?

4. How did Lenin differ from the German Marxists?

5. According to Edmund Wilson, Babeuf saw the center of power during the French Revolution as being ______________.

(see the answer key)

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