Quiz: On the Jewish Question

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

1. 1. What does Marx tell the Jews, in contrast to Bauer?

   They should convert to Christianity, which is itself dissolving into a religion of humanity They can win political freedom without leaving Judaism; so it is not human emancipation They must give up Judaism before they can receive civil rights in a Christian state They should seek a state of their own, since no Christian state will ever free them
2. 2. What does Marx say of the conception of security?

   It confirms the egoism of bourgeois society, not raising it above it It is the one truly social right, binding each citizen to the whole community It was abolished by the 1793 constitution in favour of public safety It belongs only to the citizen, not to man as a member of civil society
3. 3. How does Marx describe the remnant of a state religion in constitutional France?

   As a concordat with the Pope, renewed by each king As an established Protestant church of the state As the formula of “a religion of the majority” As a tax paid only by Catholics
4. 4. What does Marx conclude from the strength of religion in the North American states?

   That Americans have a state church in all but name, in each state That religion will soon disappear there That America is not yet politically emancipated from its churches That religion does not contradict the completed state
5. 5. Whom does Marx call the “discoverers” of the rights of man?

   The Greeks and the Romans of the Republic The North Americans and the French The Germans and Swiss The English of 1688 and the Dutch
6. 6. What does Marx call the practical application of the right to freedom?

   The right of assembly and petition The right to vote The right of resistance to oppression The right to private property
7. 7. Which right does Marx show the revolutionaries violating in practice despite proclaiming it?

   Equality before the law Freedom of religion The right of property Freedom of the press
8. 8. Which natural rights does Article 2 of the 1793 declaration list?

   Life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness, property Liberty, fraternity, equality, property Liberty, property, security, resistance to oppression Equality, liberty, security, property
9. 9. What did Thomas Münzer declare intolerable?

   That peasants paid tithes That princes ruled the church in their own lands That the Bible was still read only in Latin by priests That all creatures had been turned into property
10. 10. Which constitution does Marx quote on the imprescriptible right to worship according to conscience?

    Massachusetts’s Pennsylvania’s New York’s Virginia’s
11. 11. What “double life” does the individual lead in the completed political state?

    A life as a worker and a life as a soldier A life in the political community and one in bourgeois society A life as a believer and a life as a sceptic A life in the town and a life in the country
12. 12. How does Marx describe the character of the old society in one word?

    Barbarism Theocracy Absolutism Feudality
13. 13. What image does Marx use for the citizen’s political identity worn by the member of bourgeois society?

    A political lionskin A borrowed royal crown A political mask of wax A suit of gilded armour
14. 14. Where does Marx propose to look for “the secret of religion”?

    In the Talmud In the books of the Pentateuch In the history of the synagogue In the real, everyday Jew
15. 15. What did political emancipation give the individual with respect to property?

    The abolition of all property in land A guaranteed minimum income from the state Common ownership of land Freedom of property, not freedom from property
16. 16. According to Bauer, why is the Christian closer to freedom than the Jew?

    He already lives in a free and secular state He has already accepted the universal rights of man He has no religious law He has only one stage to surmount, his own religion
17. 17. What does Marx call the “completed Christian State”?

    The Prussian monarchy of Frederick William The Holy Roman Empire of the German nation The Papal States The atheistic, democratic state
18. 18. According to Bauer, how is the religious antagonism between Jew and Christian to be resolved?

    By the conversion of the Jews to Protestantism By abolishing religion altogether By the separation of Jews into their own corporation By a concordat between the state and the synagogue
19. 19. Which statement sums up Marx’s method in Part I?

    He dismisses religion as irrelevant to politics He turns theological questions into secular questions He treats religion as the basis of secular ills He turns secular questions into theological ones
20. 20. Whose description of the “abstraction of the political man” does Marx quote?

    Hobbes’s Hegel’s Rousseau’s Locke’s
21. 21. How does Marx assess political emancipation?

    As progress: the last emancipation within the existing order As a step backwards from the corporate liberties of feudal society As the final form of human freedom, completing the work of history As a fraud of no value, since it leaves the state Christian in every essential respect
22. 22. In which country does Marx say the Jewish question is “a purely theological question”?

    England France Germany The United States
23. 23. What, according to Marx, is “man” as distinguished from the citizen?

    A member of the species in general A subject of the monarch A member of bourgeois society A believer in a particular faith
24. 24. What relation between Christianity and Judaism does Marx assert?

    The two have nothing in common Christianity has wholly overcome Judaism Judaism is the sublime idea of Christianity Christianity sprang from Judaism and has dissolved back into it
25. 25. What “third task” does Marx say criticism had to perform beyond asking who emancipates and who is emancipated?

    To ask when emancipation should be granted To ask what kind of emancipation is in question To ask whether Jews deserve emancipation To ask what emancipation would cost
26. 26. To what figure does Hamilton compare the pious inhabitant of New England?

    Sisyphus, rolling his stone uphill Midas, whose touch turned to gold Prometheus, chained to a lonely rock Laocoön, throttled by serpents
27. 27. What does Marx call “the last political form to recognize private property”?

    The guild system The census, a property qualification for voting and office The hereditary peerage and its seats in the upper house The land tax paid by the nobility
28. 28. Which of these does Marx list among the measures of the revolutionary state at its moment of heightened consciousness?

    The Napoleonic Civil Code The Continental System The law of maximum The Concordat with Rome
29. 29. How does Marx characterize the freedom defined in the declarations?

    As the freedom of a citizen in assembly As the freedom of a species-being in community As the freedom of an isolated atom As the freedom of conscience and of worship
30. 30. According to the Hegel passage Marx quotes, when is the state seen to be superior to the churches?

    When the church is divided into several churches When the church is abolished When the monarch himself heads the established church When all citizens share one faith and one confession