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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. When did Lenin begin to read Marx?
(a) At the University of Kazan.
(b) In high school.
(c) At the University of Berlin.
(d) After being expelled from the University of Kazan.

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

5. How does Edmund Wilson characterize Bakunin's career?
(a) He wrote extensively, but he never participated in a political movement.
(b) He spent his life trying to be part of revolutions in Europe.
(c) He became a close ally of Marx's and was responsible for spreading Marx's ideas internationally.
(d) He made a name for himself as the actor who would fulfill Marx's prophecies.

6. What industrial facility did Engels grow up across the river from?
(a) An iron works.
(b) A textile factory.
(c) A coal mine.
(d) A bottling plant.

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

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

9. According to Marx and Engels, from what did the bourgeoisie and the proletariat originate?
(a) From the end of feudalism and from modern society, respectively.
(b) From modern warfare and from industrial efficiencies, respectively.
(c) From strength and weakness, respectively.
(d) From inheritance and poverty, respectively.

10. What kind of approach toward the study of economics did Marx take?
(a) Scientific.
(b) Religious.
(c) Literary.
(d) Pragmatic.

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

12. How do Marx and Engels describe a socialist society?
(a) As the next thesis, which will create a new anti-thesis.
(b) As the end of economics.
(c) As the humanization of industrialism.
(d) As the synthesis of bourgeoisie and proletariat.

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

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

15. What was Trotsky's role in the early years of the Russian Revolution?
(a) He helped implement the regime's policies.
(b) He plotted with the Tsar's loyalists against the regime.
(c) He was a vocal critic of the Revolution.
(d) He spurred the revolutionaries to excesses.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the Russians say at the 1905 Third Congress?

2. How does Edmund Wilson characterize Marx's view of Das Kapital?

3. What did "The Condition of the Working Class in England" do for Marx?

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

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

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