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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 doctrine influenced both Marx and Engels?
(a) Michelet's doctrine of science.
(b) Hegel's doctrine of historical change.
(c) Rousseau's doctrine of man's natural rights.
(d) America's doctrine of democracy.

2. According to Edmund Wilson, how did Marx and Engels see history?
(a) As a progression toward human liberty.
(b) As a flight from original sin.
(c) As a series of oppositions between thesis and anti-thesis.
(d) As a fulfillment of ancient prophecies.

3. What work did Engels have to finish when Marx died?
(a) "The Condition of the Working Class in England."
(b) "Das Kapital."
(c) Explaining Marx's theory to the socialists.
(d) Defining the master-slave dialectic.

4. What were Marx and Engels trying to define after writing "The Condition of the Working Class in England"?
(a) Their own individual philosophies.
(b) A grounds for opposing the ruling classes.
(c) An excuse for starting a class war.
(d) A revolutionary moment.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Lassalle's relationship with the communists, according to Edmund Wilson's account?

2. Where did Lenin and Trotsky first meet?

3. How does Edmund Wilson describe Ferdinand Lassalle?

4. What did the Russians say at the 1905 Third Congress?

5. How did Engels characterize classical economic theories?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Lenin's relationship with his wife.

2. What effect did Marx have on Engels?

3. How was Engels brought to socialism?

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

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

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

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

8. How does Edmund Wilson say Marx thought about Das Kapital?

9. What reforms did the 1905 Soviet institute?

10. What is dialectical materialism?

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