Quiz: The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte

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

1. Which slogans did the bourgeois society give out as pass-words against the June insurgents? “God, King and Fatherland” “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, or Death” “Property, Family, Religion, Order” “Bread and Work”
2. Why does Marx say the nephew became Emperor? He was backed by England, which feared a restoration of the Bourbons more than a Bonaparte The peasants’ belief that a man named Napoleon would restore their glory met his fixed idea He won victories in Italy that made the army demand him as Emperor of the French He was elected by the Paris workers in gratitude for the National Workshops of 1848
3. What did the Legitimists and Orleanists represent, according to Marx, beneath their loyalties to rival dynasties? Town and country, Paris and the provinces The army and the clergy Land and capital Catholics and Protestants
4. Over how large an army of office-holders does the French executive dispose, according to Marx in chapter IV? Five million About ten thousand Two hundred thousand More than half a million
5. What, according to Marx, did the first Napoleon at least do on the 18th Brumaire that his nephew did not? Abolished the legislative body by a regular law passed by a majority of its own sitting members Went into the legislative body himself and, in a tremulous voice, read it its death sentence Called a plebiscite before acting, so that the whole people sanctioned the coup in advance by vote Left the deputies untouched and simply ruled beside them for some years as First Consul
6. How did Bonaparte win over the soldiers, according to Marx? With higher pay voted by the Assembly With cigars, champagne, cold poultry and garlic-sausage With medals and promotions to the ranks With promises of land in Algeria after service
7. How does Marx contrast the course of the revolution of 1848 with that of 1789? 1848 had no real parties, only clubs and newspapers 1848 was led by the peasants 1848 moved along a descending line, each party leaning on the one to its right 1848 moved along an ascending line, like 1789, power passing to ever bolder parties
8. Which general, the military protector of the party of Order, did Bonaparte dismiss? Lamoricière Changarnier Saint-Arnaud Bugeaud
9. Who stood on the side of the Parisian proletariat in the June insurrection of 1848? The petty bourgeoisie The peasantry The National Guard None but itself
10. In what disguise, according to Marx, did the revolution of 1789–1814 drape itself? As the Holy Roman Empire of Charlemagne As ancient Athens and Sparta Alternately as Roman Republic and Roman Empire As the English Commonwealth of Cromwell
11. Why, according to Marx, do the smallholding peasants need someone to represent them? They are excluded from the suffrage by the electoral law of 31 May 1850 and its residence rule They have delegated their votes to the Legitimist landowners of the provinces They prefer to leave all politics to the village priest and the notary They cannot represent themselves; their representative must appear as their master

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