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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What had Russia still not experienced by the end of the 19th century?
(a) Feudalism.
(b) Industrialization.
(c) Labor exploitation.
(d) Modern warfare.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Edmund Wilson describe Marx's study of economics?

3. When did Trotsky first study Marx and Lenin?

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

5. What was Lassalle's relationship with the communists, according to Edmund Wilson's account?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the ten points addressed in the Communist Manifesto?

2. Why, according to Trotsky, did the 1905 Soviet fail?

3. What work did Engels have to finish after Marx died?

4. What was Bakunin's relationship with Marx?

5. Describe Marx's relationship with Proudhon.

6. How did Marx approach the question of studying capitalism?

7. How did Marx and Engels describe the stages of economic development?

8. What conditions made Russia a good candidate for a transition to communism?

9. Describe the relationship between Lenin and Trotsky.

10. Describe Lenin's relationship with his wife.

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