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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Edmund Wilson describe Marx's study of economics?
(a) As a prophecy of socialism.
(b) As a snapshot of Marx's moment.
(c) As a study of capitalism.
(d) As a prediction of communism.

2. What doctrine influenced both Marx and Engels?
(a) Hegel's doctrine of historical change.
(b) America's doctrine of democracy.
(c) Rousseau's doctrine of man's natural rights.
(d) Michelet's doctrine of science.

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

4. 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 no longer agreed with him.
(d) He disliked Proudhon as a person.

5. What is Marx's fundamental critique of capitalists?
(a) They do not deserve the workers' surplus value.
(b) They are fighting their own historical development into socialists.
(c) They misspend the value they skim from the system.
(d) Their technology has alienated the workers from their labor.

6. How did Marx and Engels characterize capitalism?
(a) As the perfect system for expressing human creativity.
(b) As a stage on the way toward Communism.
(c) As evidence of man's inhumanity to man.
(d) As the modern evil.

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

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

9. 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 force of nature.
(d) As a commodity.

10. What was Marx's relationship with Engels after the 1850s?
(a) Marx turned Engels' ideas into books.
(b) They quarreled and split.
(c) Engels sent Marx money because he was broke.
(d) They started a commune with the proceeds of their shared writing.

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

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

13. What affect did Lassalle have on the relationship between Marx and Engels?
(a) He brought them closer together.
(b) He played them against each other.
(c) He clarified their differences.
(d) He strained it.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What were Marx and Engels trying to define after writing "The Condition of the Working Class in England"?

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

3. What was Engels converted to in Cologne?

4. According to Edmund Wilson, how did Marx and Engels see history?

5. How did Lenin differ from the German Marxists?

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