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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the one condition on which Proudhon agreed to Marx's project?
(a) It would not put them at risk of being arrested.
(b) It would bring about the revolution.
(c) It would not become a religious doctrine.
(d) It would not result in political action.

2. What does Edmund Wilson say Marx discovered through his work with the International Working Men's Association?
(a) The laws of economics were truly independent of nation or industry.
(b) The historical movement toward a workers' state was progressing.
(c) As long as workers had subsistence wages, they could be pacified.
(d) Workers did not care about the historical process.

3. Who converted Engels in Cologne?
(a) Saint-Simon.
(b) Michelet.
(c) Hess.
(d) Marx.

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

5. How did Engels characterize classical economic theories?
(a) As obsolete relative to new technologies for production.
(b) As mere meditations on capital, without grounds in reality.
(c) As rationalizations for capitalists' greed.
(d) As mathematical abstractions out of touch with the finances of poverty.

6. How does Edmund Wilson describe Ferdinand Lassalle?
(a) As an agent provocateur from the German government.
(b) As a disciple of Marx's.
(c) As the spokesman for the next phase of German socialism.
(d) As the philosopher who was the final straw in the development of socialism.

7. Where did Trotsky place his first political sympathies?
(a) With the Tsar.
(b) With the Populists.
(c) With the Communists.
(d) With the intellectuals.

8. How does Marx define labor?
(a) As just one agent of the earth's fulfillment in economic activity.
(b) As the source of all value.
(c) As a commodity.
(d) As a force of nature.

9. When did Lenin break with the Central Committee in Germany?
(a) 1908.
(b) 1904.
(c) 1917.
(d) 1906.

10. According to Wilson, why did the theory by Marx and Engels create "strange situations"?
(a) They made themselves famous and wealthy advocating for the workers' rights.
(b) Their theory blinded them to certain kinds of evidence.
(c) They were using historical theory to decide their positions on cultural phenomena.
(d) The manifesto for the workers' freedom bound them to a formula for political engagement.

11. What did "The Condition of the Working Class in England" do for Marx?
(a) It gave him publicity.
(b) It gave him experience organizing and writing a long tract
(c) It gave him legitimacy as an author.
(d) It gave him a background in economics and society.

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

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

14. 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 prophecy of a workers' state.
(d) The combination of a theory of history and a theory of economics.

15. When did Trotsky first study Marx and Lenin?
(a) At the university.
(b) In high school.
(c) In France.
(d) In Siberia.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the author, what does the "dialectic" means in "dialectic materialism"?

2. Where did Lenin move after being released from prison?

3. What did Marx and Engels see as the end of capitalism?

4. What was Engels converted to in Cologne?

5. What does Marx say a society based on class prevents?

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