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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. According to Edmund Wilson's account, why didn't Marx and Engels consider Russia as a site of the first revolution?
(a) Russia had industrialized very quickly, bringing prosperity to the masses.
(b) Russia's economy was agricultural.
(c) Russia had already transitioned from feudalism to capitalism without a war.
(d) Russia did not have fiery leaders to spark a revolution.

2. Who converted Engels in Cologne?
(a) Hess.
(b) Saint-Simon.
(c) Marx.
(d) Michelet.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Marx and Engels see as the end of capitalism?

2. How does Edmund Wilson describe the relationship between Marx and Engels?

3. How does Marx define labor?

4. How do Marx and Engels describe the proletariat?

5. According to Marx and Engels, from what did the bourgeoisie and the proletariat originate?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Lenin's relationship with his wife.

2. How did the theory of dialectical materialism by Marx and Engels reflect Hegel's influence?

3. What defined the views of Marx and Engels on international relationships between nations?

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

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

6. Describe Ferdinand Lassalle's career.

7. Describe the environment where Engels grew up.

8. Describe Lenin's meeting with Trotsky.

9. What was Marx' standard for saying that the proletariat and bourgeoisie moralities are opposed to each other?

10. Describe the relationship between Lenin and Trotsky.

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