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

2. How do Marx and Engels describe a socialist society?
(a) As the next thesis, which will create a new anti-thesis.
(b) As the humanization of industrialism.
(c) As the end of economics.
(d) As the synthesis of bourgeoisie and proletariat.

3. What is Marx's fundamental critique of capitalists?
(a) They are fighting their own historical development into socialists.
(b) They do not deserve the workers' surplus value.
(c) They misspend the value they skim from the system.
(d) Their technology has alienated the workers from their labor.

4. How does Edmund Wilson characterize Marx's view of Das Kapital?
(a) He says that Marx saw it as a new testament in Christian religion.
(b) He says that Marx saw it as a rebellion against his parents' culture.
(c) He says that Marx saw it as monument to workers' sufferings.
(d) He says that Marx saw it as a work of art.

5. What was Engels converted to in Cologne?
(a) Protestantism.
(b) Catholicism.
(c) Political activity.
(d) Communism.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What was Trotsky's role in the early years of the Russian Revolution?

4. What does Edmund Wilson say Marx discovered through his work with the International Working Men's Association?

5. What did Marx and Engels combine with the goals of the utopian socialists?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Describe Ferdinand Lassalle's career.

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

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

6. Describe Lenin's relationship with his wife.

7. How was Engels brought to socialism?

8. How does dialectical materialism correlate to economic phenomena?

9. Describe Lenin's meeting with Trotsky.

10. Describe Marx's relationship with Proudhon.

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