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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 does Marx say a society based on class prevents?
(a) Abuses of workers' rights.
(b) A recognition of universal rights.
(c) Class warfare.
(d) Solidarity between workers from different nations.

2. Marx began to work with Proudhon, who had written _____________.
(a) Newspaper articles on the working poor.
(b) Political prophecies.
(c) A series of essays on capital.
(d) A book treating property as a form of theft.

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

4. How did Engels characterize classical economic theories?
(a) As rationalizations for capitalists' greed.
(b) As obsolete relative to new technologies for production.
(c) As mere meditations on capital, without grounds in reality.
(d) As mathematical abstractions out of touch with the finances of poverty.

5. In what mental/emotional state did Lenin find the Russian intellectuals at the turn of the century?
(a) Confused.
(b) Unready.
(c) Apathetic.
(d) Enraged.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did the "dialectic" in dialectic materialism come from?

2. When did Trotsky first study Marx and Lenin?

3. According to Wilson, why did the theory by Marx and Engels create "strange situations"?

4. Why did Marx break with Proudhon?

5. According to Trotsky, why did the 1905 revolt fail?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Marx's relationship with Proudhon.

2. Why hadn't Marx and Engels thought that Russia would have the revolution they anticipated?

3. Describe Lenin's relationship with his wife.

4. Describe Lenin's temperament and methods.

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

6. How did Marx ultimately find Engels?

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

8. What critique did Engels make of classical economics?

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

10. How did Marx approach the question of studying capitalism?

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