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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Trotsky's role in the early years of the Russian Revolution?
(a) He was a vocal critic of the Revolution.
(b) He spurred the revolutionaries to excesses.
(c) He plotted with the Tsar's loyalists against the regime.
(d) He helped implement the regime's policies.

2. Where did Trotsky go after he escaped from Russia?
(a) China.
(b) London.
(c) America.
(d) Cuba.

3. Where did Lenin meet his future wife?
(a) In Berlin.
(b) In London.
(c) In Zurich.
(d) In Siberia.

4. How did Trotsky try to influence the relationship between the Mensheviks and the Bolsheviks?
(a) He played them against each other.
(b) He tried to get them both to accept Lenin's leadership.
(c) He tried to reconcile them.
(d) He tried to help the Bolsheviks incorporate the Mensheviks.

5. What thinker did Marx return to after he broke with Proudhon?
(a) Michelet.
(b) Hegel.
(c) Saint-Simon.
(d) Rousseau.

6. When did Marx finish the first volume of Das Kapital?
(a) 1848.
(b) 1854.
(c) 1872.
(d) 1867.

7. How did Marx and Engels view their theory of history?
(a) They wondered whether they had underestimated the greed of the lower classes.
(b) They knew it was a fantasy.
(c) They never doubted it would succeed.
(d) They saw it as one model among many.

8. What were the Soviets NOT calling for in 1905?
(a) Women's suffrage.
(b) Eight hour workday.
(c) Freedom of the press.
(d) Workers' rights.

9. Where was Engels working while he and Marx were writing articles together?
(a) In a publisher's house in Berlin.
(b) In an exchange in Zurich.
(c) In a mill in Manchester.
(d) In a factory in London.

10. What made Marx and Engels pioneers in their field?
(a) The internationalism in their work.
(b) The inclusion of technological innovation in their predictions.
(c) The combination of a theory of history and a theory of economics.
(d) The prophecy of a workers' state.

11. How does Edmund Wilson characterize Marx's view of Das Kapital?
(a) He says that Marx saw it as a work of art.
(b) He says that Marx saw it as a rebellion against his parents' culture.
(c) He says that Marx saw it as monument to workers' sufferings.
(d) He says that Marx saw it as a new testament in Christian religion.

12. According to the author, what does the "dialectic" means in "dialectic materialism"?
(a) Transcendental metaphysics.
(b) Thesis/antithesis/synthesis.
(c) Evolutionary adaptation.
(d) Eternal recurrence.

13. What organization did Lassalle establish?
(a) The General Union of German Workers.
(b) International Working Men's Association.
(c) The Syndicate of Technical Workers and Artists.
(d) The German Communist Party.

14. What did Marx and Engels combine with the goals of the utopian socialists?
(a) Hegel's theory of organic development.
(b) Emerson's theory of self-reliance and consolation.
(c) Goethe's theory of basic building blocks of life.
(d) Darwin's theory of evolution.

15. The "Communist Manifesto" by Marx and Engel wanted to end ____________.
(a) The right of inheritance.
(b) State run transportation.
(c) Appropriation of land.
(d) Free education for children and workers.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what field was Lenin's training?

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

3. According to Wilson, why did the theory by Marx and Engels create "strange situations"?

4. When did Trotsky first study Marx and Lenin?

5. How does Edmund Wilson characterize Bakunin's career?

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