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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. Marx's study of economics contains a discrepancy because he included _______.
(a) Pragmatism in defining group psychology.
(b) Morality in predicting economic behavior.
(c) Statistics in predicting class warfare.
(d) Religion in making a mathematical argument.

2. How do Marx and Engels describe the bourgeoisie?
(a) As an eternal principle of society.
(b) As the dominant institution.
(c) As the thesis.
(d) As the most recent usurpers.

3. Where did the "dialectic" in dialectic materialism come from?
(a) Hegel.
(b) Diderot.
(c) Emerson.
(d) Rousseau.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what project did Marx involve Proudhon?

2. Marx began to work with Proudhon, who had written _____________.

3. How does Edmund Wilson describe Marx and Engels' doctrine for intervention in human affairs?

4. What kind of approach toward the study of economics did Marx take?

5. Describe Lenin's relationship with his wife?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Where did Marx and Engels apply their theories?

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

4. What reforms did the 1905 Soviet institute?

5. Describe Lenin's meeting with Trotsky.

6. How was Engels brought to socialism?

7. How did Marx ultimately find Engels?

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

9. Describe Lenin's temperament and methods.

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

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