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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Marx first hear of Engels?
(a) Engels sought him out for help with an article.
(b) He met him by chance.
(c) He met him through friends.
(d) He read one of his articles.

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

3. What did Engels see as a sign of the workers' poor working conditions?
(a) Their poverty.
(b) Their religiousness.
(c) Their productivity.
(d) Their lack of gaiety.

4. In what mental/emotional state did Lenin find the Russian intellectuals at the turn of the century?
(a) Unready.
(b) Confused.
(c) Enraged.
(d) Apathetic.

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

6. What had Russia still not experienced by the end of the 19th century?
(a) Modern warfare.
(b) Labor exploitation.
(c) Industrialization.
(d) Feudalism.

7. What philosopher did Engels become interested in when he was in Berlin?
(a) Voltaire.
(b) Locke.
(c) Hegel.
(d) Rousseau.

8. According to Edmund Wilson's account, why didn't Marx and Engels consider Russia as a site of the first revolution?
(a) Russia did not have fiery leaders to spark a revolution.
(b) Russia's economy was agricultural.
(c) Russia had already transitioned from feudalism to capitalism without a war.
(d) Russia had industrialized very quickly, bringing prosperity to the masses.

9. How does Edmund Wilson describe Marx and Engels' doctrine for intervention in human affairs?
(a) As idealistic and prophetic.
(b) As functional and international.
(c) As overly-detailed and narrow.
(d) As practical and local.

10. 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 saw it as one model among many.
(d) They never doubted it would succeed.

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

12. What action did Lassalle warn Bismarck against when they met?
(a) Imprisoning Communist leaders.
(b) Suppressing the press.
(c) Suppressing the Communist Party.
(d) Breaking strikes using the military.

13. How did the "Communist Manifesto treat education?
(a) It should be political.
(b) It should be apolitical.
(c) It should proselytize for Communism.
(d) It should be free.

14. How does Edmund Wilson describe the relationship between Marx and Engels?
(a) Marx gave Engels structure and inspiration.
(b) Engels gave Marx intellectual seriousness and political zeal.
(c) Marx kept Engels from going stray.
(d) Engels gave Marx support.

15. What did Trotsky say would be necessary before Russia could have a socialist revolution?
(a) America would have to suppress its communists with violence.
(b) Socialist revolutions in other countries.
(c) A transition to free markets for labor and goods.
(d) A world war to change the balance of power in Europe.

Short Answer Questions

1. What affect did Lassalle have on the relationship between Marx and Engels?

2. What made Marx and Engels pioneers in their field?

3. When did Trotsky first study Marx and Lenin?

4. How did Marx review Proudhon's book on private property?

5. What work did Engels have to finish when Marx died?

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