Socialism and Communism Answers

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Which statement is characteristic of a communist system? Choose four answers.

A
The government controls the means of production.
B
Prices and wages are set by supply and demand.
C
The government regulates a centrally planned economy.
D
Entrepreneurs are encouraged to take risks.
E
Prices and wages are set by the government.
F
Businesses are free to follow their own best interests.
G
A single authoritarian party holds complete power.
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Which best describes a social democracy also known as a socialist democracy?

A
industry is privatized and military forces control the government
B
the government controls the economy but allows free elections and other civil liberties
C
the government controls the economy and bans free elections and other civil liberties
D
most workers live in communes and share goods and property
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What was New Harmony, Indiana?

A
a successful factory town
B
a community of escaped enslaved persons
C
a model utopian community
D
a community for religious dissidents
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A
communism
B
capitalism
C
socialism
D
anarchism
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Which statement most accurately describes The Communist Manifesto?

A
It was a description of the many benefits brought to modern life by industrialization.
B
It was a publication describing the upbringing and education of Karl Marx.
C
It was a description of the class struggle and the problems caused by capitalism.
D
It was a criticism that pointed out the cruelties of the communist system.
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Read the description of an economic system in an imaginary country. The national government built all the transportation systems. The government determines where the train will go and how much each trip will cost. All people who work on the train system [mechanics, drivers, ticket sales, or cleaners] are employed and paid by the national government. All citizens of this country "share" ownership of the train system.

A
The people control the means of production.
B
The government makes the economic decisions.
C
The economy operates on prioritizing the individual.
D
The law of supply and demand controls the economy.
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As a result of the problems of the Industrial Age, some influential reformers called for

A
a new economic system.
B
a single world government.
C
a dictatorship in the United States.
D
an end to all factories.
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Marx and Engels believed the Industrial Revolution had separated people into two separate classes: the bourgeoisie and the

A
utopians
B
proletariat
C
appendages
D
capitalists
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Read this excerpt from Friedrich Engels’s The Condition of the Working Class in England.Every great city has one or more slums, where the working-class is crowded together. . . . The streets are generally unpaved, rough, dirty, filled with vegetable and animal refuse [trash], without sewers or gutters, but supplied with foul, stagnant pools instead.

A
Industrialization has created poor living conditions.
B
Mass production has led to the birth of industrial cities.
C
Steam-power machinery has destroyed the environment.
D
Workers in cities need to try harder to improve their living conditions.
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A
capitalism
B
utopianism
C
communism
D
mysticism

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