Quiz: Where to Begin?

All 12 questions. A perfect score earns the gold medal; 80% earns silver.

1. How does Lenin describe the existing forces of the movement? A disciplined standing army, united and ready for a general attack on the autocracy Mainly scattered peasant militias, with a few workers’ circles in the large cities Mostly volunteers and insurgents, with a few small, unconnected regular detachments A mass party with a central committee and committees in every industrial town
2. What does Lenin propose as the first practical step towards the organisation? Forming terrorist groups in the main cities Calling a congress of all the local committees Founding an all-Russian newspaper Electing deputies to the zemstvos and town councils
3. Which trend does Lenin say has made its nest in Rabocheye Dyelo? Liberal constitutionalism Orthodox revolutionary Marxism Anarcho-communist federalism Unprincipled eclecticism
4. According to the opening, what is the question now facing Russian Social-Democrats? Whether to join the liberals against the autocracy Whether to emigrate and carry on the work abroad What practical steps to take on a known path Which path to choose, as in the late 1880s and early 1890s
5. To what does Lenin compare the newspaper as organiser? The keel and ribs of a ship being laid down Scaffolding round a building going up The nervous system of a body A bridge across a river
6. What slogan does Lenin propose instead of “to the assault”? Form into storming columns Lay regular siege to the enemy fortress Back to the factories Change tactics within twenty-four hours as events demand
7. What is Lenin’s position on terror in this article? Not renounced in principle, but untimely and inexpedient now The chief means of struggle, to be organised by the newspaper Rejected absolutely and for all time on moral and humane grounds A matter for local committees to decide according to conditions
8. Whose saying about changing tactics in twenty-four hours does Rabocheye Dyelo quote? Ferdinand Lassalle’s Wilhelm Liebknecht’s Karl Kautsky’s Georgy Plekhanov’s
9. From what, according to Lenin, does the movement suffer most of all? Too much theory Competition from the liberals for the workers’ support Its fragmentation into purely local work A lack of money
10. Which events does Lenin say teach the need for a revolutionary organisation? The St Petersburg textile strikes of 1896 The Paris Commune The famine and cholera riots of 1891–92 The February and March events of 1901
11. Why does Lenin say organisation is especially needed in quiet periods? Because in moments of outbreak it is too late to create one Because elections are held then Because the police are less watchful then, and arrests are fewer Because in quiet periods workers have more free time for study circles
12. Besides a collective propagandist and agitator, what else does Lenin call a newspaper? A collective treasury A collective conscience A collective educator A collective organiser

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