Das Kapital Quizzes

Think you’ve got your head wrapped around Das Kapital? Put your knowledge to the test. Good luck — the Stickman is counting on you!
Q. What's the name of the milliner whose death from overwork was widely publicized?


Mary Elizabeth Smith
Mary Catherine Myers
Mary Anne Walkley
Karl Marx
Q. What commodity does Marx give as an example of one produced in manufacture where the workers have different handicraft skills?


Carriages
Needles
Trains
The book Das Kapital
Q. Which Greek philosopher does Marx reference who has a concept of gods in the intermundia?


Aristotle
Anaximander
Epicurus
Plato
Q. When was the House of Terror conceived?


1776
1770
1867
60,000,000,000,000 B.C.E.
Q. Which is NOT one of the examples Marx gives of language used to describe capitalists stealing workers' mealtime?


Petty pilferings of minutes
Snatching a few minutes
Seizing minutes
I don't know, get back to work