Quiz: Karl Marx

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

1. 1. What, in the passage from Capital that Lenin quotes, does modern industry create by drawing women and children into production?

   The final dissolution of all family ties and duties A return to the old patriarchal household and its ways A basis for a higher form of the family A permanent and natural division of labour between the sexes
2. 2. What does Lenin call the chief material foundation for the coming of socialism?

   The socialisation of labour The growth of consumer co-operatives The spread of universal suffrage The education of the workers by socialist parties
3. 3. Which three intellectual currents did Marx continue and complete, according to Lenin?

   French philosophy, German political economy and English socialism Greek philosophy, Roman law and Christian ethics Darwinism, positivism and anarchism German philosophy, English political economy and French socialism
4. 4. What does Engels call “the great basic question of all philosophy”?

   The limits of language The nature of the good life and of happiness The relation of thinking to being The existence of God and the soul’s immortality
5. 5. Which historians of the French Restoration, according to Lenin, recognised the class struggle as the key to French history?

   Michelet, Taine, Renan and Lamartine Thierry, Guizot, Mignet and Thiers Ranke, Mommsen and Treitschke Gibbon, Hume and Macaulay
6. 6. Which nation did Engels call the most bourgeois of all, aiming at a bourgeois proletariat beside the bourgeoisie?

   The English nation The Americans The French The Germans
7. 7. Where will society put the machinery of state, in the words of Engels that Lenin quotes?

   Into a federation of free communes, each administering its own affairs Into the hands of an elected parliament answerable to the whole nation Into the Museum of Antiquities, by the spinning wheel and the bronze axe Under the control of the trade unions and the workers’ co-operatives
8. 8. How does Lenin picture development as dialectics understands it?

   As pure chance In spirals, not in a straight line As a straight line of steady progress As an endless cycle returning to the same point
9. 9. How does Lenin define the state in the section on socialism?

   As a neutral arbiter standing above all classes As organised violence born of irreconcilable classes As the expression of the general will of the whole nation As a natural institution as old as humanity
10. 10. How, according to Engels as quoted by Lenin, should socialists bring small peasants to co-operative production?

    By expropriating them with fair compensation from the state By expropriating them at once, without compensation By taxing private farming gradually out of existence By example and social assistance, not by force