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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Marx say a society based on class destroys?
(a) The relationship between men.
(b) Tradition.
(c) A worker's individuality.
(d) Working class heroes.

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

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

6. What did the Russians say at the 1905 Third Congress?
(a) They wanted the German intellectuals to return and fight beside them.
(b) They didn't want exiles to lead them.
(c) They wanted to purge the Russian party of dissenters.
(d) They repudiated the influence of Trotsky and embraced Lenin.

7. When did Trotsky return to Russia after the 1905 revolt?
(a) 1927.
(b) 1921.
(c) 1917.
(d) 1912.

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

9. In what project did Marx involve Proudhon?
(a) A correspondence to keep communists in touch with one another.
(b) Collecting the letters of revolutionaries.
(c) Organizing workers into collectives.
(d) Publishing young socialist philosophers.

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

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

12. How does Marx distinguish between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie in terms of morality?
(a) He says that the proletariat acknowledges a universal morality, but the bourgeoisie invents its own.
(b) He says that the proletariat determines the bourgeoisie's morality based on what the bourgeoisie is afraid of.
(c) He says that what is right for one class is not right for the other.
(d) He says that the bourgeoisie's power subjects the proletariat to the bourgeoisie's morals.

13. Where did Lenin move after being released from prison?
(a) Munich.
(b) Zurich.
(c) Moscow.
(d) London.

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

15. What does Marx say a society based on class prevents?
(a) A recognition of universal rights.
(b) Solidarity between workers from different nations.
(c) Class warfare.
(d) Abuses of workers' rights.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Friedrich Engels grow up?

2. Who was ruler of Russia when Lenin was growing up?

3. Where did Trotsky go after he escaped from Russia?

4. What doctrine influenced both Marx and Engels?

5. What was the state of the Russian intelligentsia in the end of the 19th century?

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