Quiz: Woman and Socialism

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

1. Who asserted at the Munich congress of 1877 that “The Darwinian theory leads to Socialism”? Ludwig Büchner Rudolf Virchow Emil du Bois-Reymond Ernst Haeckel
2. Which Athenian does Bebel credit with introducing the public brothel? Solon Pericles Cecrops Demosthenes
3. What does Bebel say bourgeois society regards as the ultimate solution of the woman question? The return of women to the home Civic equality of men and women The abolition of private property Exclusion of married women from industry
4. What is Bebel’s criticism of Tolstoi’s ideal of a day divided between physical, manual and mental work? It overrates physical labour, which machines will abolish entirely It is unnatural, because people should specialize in a single occupation for life It is rational, but example alone cannot make it general without a new society It is impossible even for a man of independent means
5. In the Dieyeri legend Bebel quotes, how did the tribe end the evils of marriage among close relatives? It made the chief the husband of all the women of the tribe It forbade marriage altogether for a generation, on the order of the elders It moved away to new hunting grounds far from the old camp Members had to marry outside their own named branch
6. Why, according to Bebel, did eighteenth-century governments encourage marriage and immigration? Industrial workers were organising and demanding the right to marry Malthus had persuaded them that a growing population would end poverty Armies and courts needed heavy taxes, and so a large taxable population The churches demanded it to fill their congregations
7. What exception does Bebel find in the general pattern of male and female suicides? In Ireland women kill themselves more often than men at every age of life Married women kill themselves more often than unmarried women From fifteen to thirty, women’s suicide rate is higher than men’s Among the elderly, women’s suicide rate is twice that of men
8. Which saying does Bebel use to sum up the ruling classes’ attitude to religion? “Religion must be preserved for the people.” “Religion is a private matter.” “Throne and altar must stand or fall together.” “God is dead.”
9. What double oppression of women does Bebel identify at the start of Part II? Women are oppressed only by the law, and not at all by economic conditions Women are oppressed both socially (as proletarians) and as sex beings Women are oppressed by the church and by the army Women are oppressed by their fathers and by their sons
10. What does Bebel name as the decisive factor that will slow population growth under socialism? Laws restricting marriage to the healthy A vegetarian diet Emigration to the colonies The higher, freer position of woman
11. What is happening to peasant land in the Austrian Alps, according to Bebel? It is being divided among landless labourers by the state under new settlement laws It is being turned into hunting grounds It is being bought by peasant co-operatives It is being converted to large-scale wheat farming
12. How does Bebel answer Eugen Richter’s jibe about who will polish shoes in a socialist society? He says servants will remain but be paid more and work shorter hours He proposes that convicts do the work He says shoes will no longer need polishing He points to shoe-polishing machines already invented
13. Which institution in Paris does Bebel call “a communistic institution” already at work in bourgeois society? The municipal pawnshop, the Mont-de-Piété The public lying-in hospital run by the city The public-school meal paid for by the city The free public library
14. Why, according to Bebel, do employers find married women particularly desirable as workers? They can move freely to wherever in the country work is offered Caring for children, they are more attentive and docile They are physically stronger and more experienced than unmarried girls They are better organized in trade unions, and so easier to negotiate with
15. What is the “double yoke” that, according to the introduction, women bear? Social dependence on men and economic dependence Childbearing and the duty of military service in wartime Religious and legal disabilities Housework and factory work

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