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

2. What did the Russians say at the 1905 Third Congress?
(a) They didn't want exiles to lead them.
(b) They wanted to purge the Russian party of dissenters.
(c) They repudiated the influence of Trotsky and embraced Lenin.
(d) They wanted the German intellectuals to return and fight beside them.

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

4. How did Marx review Proudhon's book on private property?
(a) With a hagiography.
(b) With a glowing, appreciative review.
(c) With a book of his own.
(d) With a short, dismissive review.

5. What were the Soviets NOT calling for in 1905?
(a) Workers' rights.
(b) Freedom of the press.
(c) Eight hour workday.
(d) Women's suffrage.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Trotsky say would be necessary before Russia could have a socialist revolution?

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

3. What was the one condition on which Proudhon agreed to Marx's project?

4. The "Communist Manifesto" by Marx and Engel wanted to end ____________.

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the environment where Engels grew up.

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

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

4. Where did Marx and Engels apply their theories?

5. How does dialectical materialism correlate to economic phenomena?

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

7. What critique did Engels make of classical economics?

8. What reforms did the 1905 Soviet institute?

9. What effect did Marx have on Engels?

10. Describe Lenin's relationship with his wife.

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