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

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

3. What was the one condition on which Proudhon agreed to Marx's project?
(a) It would not result in political action.
(b) It would not become a religious doctrine.
(c) It would bring about the revolution.
(d) It would not put them at risk of being arrested.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was Marx's relationship with Engels after the 1850s?

3. What does Edmund Wilson say Marx discovered through his work with the International Working Men's Association?

4. What made Marx and Engels pioneers in their field?

5. Why did Marx break with Proudhon?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What was Bakunin's relationship with Marx?

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

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

6. What is dialectical materialism?

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

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

9. What was Marx' engagement with the Workers' Associations by the time Das Kapital was finished?

10. Why hadn't Marx and Engels thought that Russia would have the revolution they anticipated?

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