Quiz: A Critique of the Draft Social-Democratic Programme of 1891

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

1. What did Liebknecht call the Reichstag? The fig-leaf of absolutism The parliament of the workers The talking shop of the bourgeoisie The bulwark of German unity
2. What image does Engels use for the old society’s transformation? A train running over a wheelbarrow A snake shedding its skin A crab bursting its shell A seed growing into a tree
3. What does Engels call the democratic republic? The final goal of communism A bourgeois trap to be avoided A form suitable only for France and Switzerland The specific form for the dictatorship of the proletariat
4. Which tiny state does Engels set against Prussia to mock German “federation”? Schwarzburg-Sondershausen Hamburg Württemberg Reuss-Greiz-Schleiz-Lobenstein
5. What does Engels want added after “class rule” in paragraph 10? “and of the standing army” “and of landed property” “and of the monarchy” “and of classes themselves”
6. Instead of growing misery, what does Engels say certainly grows? Real wages The number of capitalists The size of the middle class Insecurity of existence
7. What kind of programme does Engels want? A list of immediate demands only A long historical narrative A full popular commentary As short and precise as possible
8. How does Engels judge a Swiss-style federal system for Germany? A step forward, as in England A matter of indifference A necessity, as in America An enormous step backward

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