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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do Marx and Engels describe the proletariat?
(a) As the next usurpers.
(b) As the emergent institution.
(c) As the anti-thesis.
(d) As an eternal principle of society.

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

3. Why did Marx break with Proudhon?
(a) He doubted Proudhon's commitment to a revolution.
(b) He found gaps in Proudhon's logic.
(c) He disliked Proudhon as a person.
(d) He no longer agreed with him.

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

5. How did Lenin differ from the German Marxists?
(a) He felt that historical processes required intervention.
(b) He simply waited for historical processes to accomplish themselves.
(c) He preached reconciliation with the bourgeoisie as a method of bringing about the workers' state.
(d) He thought that historical processes could only be accomplished by consensus.

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

7. What work did Engels have to finish when Marx died?
(a) Explaining Marx's theory to the socialists.
(b) Defining the master-slave dialectic.
(c) "The Condition of the Working Class in England."
(d) "Das Kapital."

8. What were Marx and Engels trying to define after writing "The Condition of the Working Class in England"?
(a) A grounds for opposing the ruling classes.
(b) Their own individual philosophies.
(c) A revolutionary moment.
(d) An excuse for starting a class war.

9. Where did Friedrich Engels grow up?
(a) Barmen, Germany.
(b) Salzburg, Austria.
(c) Zurich, Switzerland.
(d) Stuttgart, Germany.

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

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

12. Describe Trotsky's early relationship with Lenin.
(a) He stayed at his house, but he voted against him in the Second Congress.
(b) He worked to popularize his ideas internationally.
(c) He fought to temper Lenin's totalitarian impulses.
(d) His enthusiasm spurred Lenin's revolutionary ambitions.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what project did Marx involve Proudhon?

2. Where did the "dialectic" in dialectic materialism come from?

3. What had Russia still not experienced by the end of the 19th century?

4. How did Marx and Engels characterize capitalism?

5. How do Marx and Engels describe a socialist society?

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