Quiz: Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844

15 questions drawn at random. Score 80% for a silver medal.

1. Following Smith, Marx considers the worker in three conditions of society. What does he conclude? The worker’s condition is the same in all three Misery in every state: progressive, complicated or stationary Only the stationary state is bad for the worker The worker gains in a growing society and loses only in decline
2. Which single sense does Marx say private property has put in place of all physical and mental senses? The sense of duty The sense of having The sense of right The sense of taste
3. Whom did Engels call “the Luther of political economy”, as Marx recalls? David Ricardo François Quesnay Adam Smith J. B. Say
4. What does Marx say about the forming of the five senses? It is fixed by nature at birth and owes nothing to society or history It is a labour of the whole of world history down to the present It is the work of philosophy, which teaches the senses how to perceive It is completed in early childhood, before any labour is performed
5. Instead of one big critique, how did Marx plan to publish his critique of law, morality, politics and so on? As a single encyclopaedia of the social sciences As a run of articles in a daily newspaper in Cologne As a series of separate, independent pamphlets As lectures to workers
6. Why, according to Marx, does the emancipation of society from private property take the political form of the emancipation of the workers? Because the workers are the most numerous class and so command a majority in any assembly Because the workers’ emancipation, alone among all classes, can be won by purely political means Because the whole of human servitude is involved in the relation of the worker to production Because the workers alone pay the taxes on which the state and its servants depend
7. How does the first manuscript say wages are determined? By the price of food alone, which rises and falls with the harvest from year to year By the hostile struggle of capitalist and worker, which the capitalist must win By the statutes of each country, which fix a just minimum for every branch of labour By free agreement between capitalist and worker, in which each side bargains on equal terms
8. What does Marx call the history of industry and the objective existence of industry? The open book of man’s essential powers The tomb in which human freedom lies buried A necessary evil, to be endured until communism The opposite of culture and of all true science
9. How does Marx describe communism as the positive supersession of private property? A purely political revolution, democratic or despotic, in the form of the state A system of equal wages paid by the community as universal capitalist The riddle of history solved, which knows itself to be this solution The return to a golden age of simple needs and common ownership
10. What does Marx admire in gatherings of French socialist workers? Their strict discipline, which subordinates every member to the will of the leaders Association has become an end in itself; brotherhood is a truth with them Their religious devotion, which binds them together in a new Christian brotherhood Their learning, since they read and debate the works of the political economists
11. Whose doctrine, according to Marx, forms the transition from the mercantile system to Adam Smith? The Physiocracy of Dr. Quesnay Proudhon’s theory of property as theft Malthus’s population theory Ricardo’s theory of differential rent
12. Whose writings does the preface call the only ones since Hegel’s Phenomenology and Logic to contain a real theoretical revolution? Feuerbach’s Bruno Bauer’s Adam Smith’s Proudhon’s
13. In which publication had Marx announced the critique of Hegel’s philosophy of right that he mentions at the start of the preface? The Neue Rheinische Zeitung of Cologne The Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung of Bruno Bauer The Rheinische Zeitung The Deutsch-Französische Jahrbücher
14. Which example does Marx give of the worker losing even animal needs? The German weaver who eats only cabbage and rye bread The French peasant who eats only grain The English farmer who eats only bread and drinks only water The Irishman, whose only need is to eat lumpers
15. What is the first of Feuerbach’s great achievements, according to Marx? Proving that the state is nothing but the alienated power of the people Proving that political economy is nothing but private property brought into thought Restoring Hegel’s negation of the negation as the method of all science Proving that philosophy is nothing but religion brought into thought

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