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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. What did Marx and Engels combine with the goals of the utopian socialists?
(a) Darwin's theory of evolution.
(b) Emerson's theory of self-reliance and consolation.
(c) Hegel's theory of organic development.
(d) Goethe's theory of basic building blocks of life.

2. How did Trotsky try to influence the relationship between the Mensheviks and the Bolsheviks?
(a) He tried to get them both to accept Lenin's leadership.
(b) He played them against each other.
(c) He tried to reconcile them.
(d) He tried to help the Bolsheviks incorporate the Mensheviks.

3. Where did Trotsky go after he escaped from Russia?
(a) London.
(b) Cuba.
(c) China.
(d) America.

4. Where did Trotsky place his first political sympathies?
(a) With the Populists.
(b) With the intellectuals.
(c) With the Communists.
(d) With the Tsar.

5. How does Edmund Wilson describe the relationship between Marx and Engels?
(a) Engels gave Marx support.
(b) Engels gave Marx intellectual seriousness and political zeal.
(c) Marx gave Engels structure and inspiration.
(d) Marx kept Engels from going stray.

Short Answer Questions

1. What industrial facility did Engels grow up across the river from?

2. How does Marx define labor?

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

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Lenin's temperament and methods.

2. What is dialectical materialism?

3. Where did Marx and Engels apply their theories?

4. Describe Marx's relationship with Proudhon.

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

6. How did Marx ultimately find Engels?

7. Describe Ferdinand Lassalle's career.

8. Describe the relationship between Lenin and Trotsky.

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

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

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