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

2. What industrial facility did Engels grow up across the river from?
(a) A coal mine.
(b) An iron works.
(c) A bottling plant.
(d) A textile factory.

3. What did "The Condition of the Working Class in England" do for Marx?
(a) It gave him publicity.
(b) It gave him a background in economics and society.
(c) It gave him experience organizing and writing a long tract
(d) It gave him legitimacy as an author.

4. What was Lassalle's relationship with the communists, according to Edmund Wilson's account?
(a) He capitalized on their momentum.
(b) He worked closely with the communists, even though his goals were slightly different.
(c) He built his career around an alternative to socialism.
(d) He was not accepted.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Marx say a society based on class destroys?

2. How did Trotsky try to influence the relationship between the Mensheviks and the Bolsheviks?

3. According to the author, what does the "dialectic" means in "dialectic materialism"?

4. How did Marx and Engels view their theory of history?

5. Where did Lenin and Trotsky first meet?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where did Marx and Engels apply their theories?

2. How does dialectical materialism correlate to economic phenomena?

3. Describe Lenin's meeting with Trotsky.

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

5. How did Marx ultimately find Engels?

6. What effect did Marx have on Engels?

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. Describe Ferdinand Lassalle's career.

10. What reforms did the 1905 Soviet institute?

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