Quiz: A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right: Introduction

All 30 questions. A perfect score earns the gold medal; 80% earns silver.

1. 1. Where does Marx find the positive possibility of German emancipation?

   In the critical philosophers, who emancipate the mind first In the formation of a liberal middle class, the bourgeoisie In the formation of a class in radical chains, the proletariat In an enlightened monarch who reforms the state from above
2. 2. How did Germany relate to the revolutions of modern nations?

   It shared their restorations but not their revolutions It stayed outside both revolution and restoration, as a mere spectator It led them It made its revolution before them, under Frederick the Great
3. 3. According to Marx, what cannot replace the criticism of weapons?

   The force of the state The censorship The army of the bourgeoisie The weapon of criticism
4. 4. What does Marx call “the most radical fact of German history”?

   The Thirty Years’ War The Reformation The Wars of Liberation of 1813 The Peasants’ War
5. 5. Which school “explains every cry of the serf against the knout as rebellious”?

   The historical juridical school The Young Hegelian school of Berlin The Manchester school The physiocratic school
6. 6. How does Marx describe the relation of the spheres of German society?

   Dramatic, not epic Lyric, not epic Tragic, not comic Epic, not dramatic
7. 7. What does Marx call German philosophy?

   A mere tool of the Prussian state and its censors The ideal prolongation of German history The sworn enemy of the whole of German history A foreign import, borrowed from France and England
8. 8. Why does the State and society produce an “inverted world-consciousness”?

   Because priests deceive the people Because they are an inverted world Because philosophy is incomplete Because of the censorship
9. 9. How does Marx describe criticism grappling with German conditions?

   A weapon, not an anatomical knife A ladder to be thrown away once climbed A mirror held up to nature and to the age A lamp carried into the darkness of the age
10. 10. What does Marx say is “the basis of all criticism”?

    The criticism of religion The criticism of Hegel’s logic The criticism of political economy The criticism of the press laws
11. 11. What does Marx say is a utopian dream for Germany?

    The partial, merely political revolution General human emancipation The radical revolution The abolition of the proletariat
12. 12. Which French laws does Marx say Germany combined with its own censorship?

    The Le Chapelier law The September laws The laws of the Maximum The Civil Code
13. 13. Why is the struggle against religion indirectly a struggle against the world?

    Because religion is the sole source of all law and custom Because the clergy run the government and the courts Because the church owns most of the land and the schools Because religion is that world’s spiritual aroma
14. 14. Who, in Marx’s example, became patriots in Germany?

    The Prussian officers and the landed Junkers of the east The university professors and their students The peasants of the Rhineland and Westphalia The “cotton knights and iron heroes”
15. 15. What is the error of the “practical political party”?

    It relies on the French army to bring freedom to Germany It thinks turning its back on philosophy negates it It refuses all political action in favour of pure theory It wants to realize philosophy without first abolishing it as philosophy
16. 16. Why does history make the last phase of a world-historical figure a comedy?

    So that the tragedy may be repeated a second time So mankind may part from its past cheerfully So that the old order may be restored in a new form So that philosophers may record it at their leisure
17. 17. What did Luther do, according to Marx?

    Shattered faith in authority by restoring the authority of faith Freed the peasants from serfdom by preaching Christian liberty Destroyed faith in authority by abolishing religion in Germany Restored the authority of the Church by reforming its abuses
18. 18. How does Marx describe religion in the image of the sun?

    As an illusory sun revolving around man until he revolves around himself As the true sun that gives life to the world As a cloud hiding the sun of philosophy As a moon that reflects back on the world the borrowed light of human reason
19. 19. In the essay’s conclusion, what are the head and heart of emancipation?

    The proletariat is the head and philosophy the heart Philosophy is the head and the proletariat the heart Religion is the head and politics the heart France is the head and Germany the heart
20. 20. What example does Marx give that one individual’s emancipation does not liberate a nation?

    The Russians did not become free because Peter the Great studied in Holland The Scythians did not advance because Greece had a Scythian philosopher The Romans did not become Greek through Cicero The Jews did not become Christians through Paul
21. 21. What is the fundamental defect of the “theoretical party”?

    It looks for German freedom in the primeval Teutonic woods It supports the absolute monarchy against the liberal opposition It thinks it can realize philosophy without abolishing it It ignores philosophy altogether
22. 22. What role does Marx assign to Germany relative to other peoples?

    Their economic workshop Their religious authority Their theoretical conscience Their military shield
23. 23. Where, according to Marx, did the gods of Greece die their comic death?

    In Ovid’s Metamorphoses In Plato’s Republic In Lucian’s dialogues In Aristophanes’ comedies
24. 24. What is the foundation of the criticism of religion?

    Man makes religion, religion does not make man Religion makes both man and the state what they are The state makes religion for its own ends of rule God makes man in his own image, and man obeys him
25. 25. How does Marx mock the Teutomaniacs who seek freedom in the primeval woods?

    He asks how their freedom differs from the boar’s He calls them modern Scythians, strangers to Greek culture He likens them to medieval monks who flee the world into the forest He compares them to Roman legionaries lost in the German forests
26. 26. In this translation, what does Marx call religion besides “the opium of the people”?

    The lie of the ruling class to the poor The invention of priests to frighten the poor The dream of philosophers The moan of the oppressed creature
27. 27. Why has criticism plucked the imaginary flowers from the chain?

    So that the chain becomes lighter So that man throws off the chain and picks the living flower So that man wears his chain soberly, without fantasy or consolation So that the flowers can be replanted in heaven
28. 28. On what occasion did a Frenchman exclaim, “Poor dogs; they want to treat you like men!”?

    A law against stray dogs A projected dog tax A dog show in Paris A hunting ban
29. 29. Into what does the criticism of theology turn?

    The criticism of morality The criticism of art The criticism of science The criticism of politics
30. 30. If Marx denies the German conditions of 1843, where does he stand by French chronology?

    In 1793 In 1815 In 1830 Scarcely in 1789