(1) According to Karl Marx and Freidrich Engels (henceforth M/E) the history of the world is basically that of class struggle. (a) True (b) False
(2) According to M/E present society has complicated the situation in that there are now more classes in society in conflict whereas before there were simply the Roman patricians and the slaves.
(a) True (b) False
(3) According to M/E what paved the way for modern industry to establish the world market? (a)the invention of the printing press (b)the industrialization of the cities (c)the discovery of America (d) all the above
(4) The only nexus, connection, that the bourgeoisie has created between man and man is naked self-interest, the callous "cash payment."
(a) True (b) False
(5) According to M/E the constant revolutionizing of production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions, everlasting uncertainty and agitation, distinguish the bourgeois epoch from all earlier ones.
(a) True (b) False
(6) According to M/E the bourgeoisie has drawn from under the feet of industry the national ground on which it stood
(a) True (b) False
(7) According to M/E the bourgeoisie has destroyed the concept of world literature, replacing it with literature that is local and parochial.
(a) True (b) False
(8) According to M/E the bourgeoisie has actually forged the weapons that will bring death to itself, the capitalist.
(a) True (b) False
(9) According to M/E one of the results of the massing of workers together into factories is the potential establishment of trade unions.
(a) True (b) False
(10) The organization of the proletarians into a class, and consequently into a political party, is continually being upset again by the competition between the workers themselves.
(a) True (b) False
(11) Unlike many movements, the proletarian movement is the self-conscious, independent movement of the small minority, in the interest of the small minority.
(a) True (b) False
(12) The theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Promotion of private property.
(a) True (b) False
(13) According to M/E the first step in the Communist revolution is to raise the proletariat to the position of ruling class.
(a) True (b) False
(14) M/E want to institute a graduated income tax.
(a) True (b) False
(15) M/E claim that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions
(a) True (b) False
(16) According to M/E the proletarians have nothing to lose but the world
(a)True (b) False