| Question | Answer | % Correct |
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| What country was Marxist theorist Antonio Francesco Gramsci from? | Italy | 94%
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| A famous Yugoslavian partisan who fought fascists and led Yugoslavia until his death in 1980, at the age of 87. | Josip Tito | 88%
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| In Marxist theory, the excess of value produced by the labour of workers over the wages they are paid. | Surplus value | 76%
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| Which of these is NOT an theory within Marxist doctrine? | Syndicalism | 71%
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| A famous leftist 60's black and white film which was banned for a time in France, for its accurate portrayal of urban guerilla forces fighting for Algerian independence against France. | Battle of Algiers | 65%
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| What's the name of the most well known male Zapatista leader? Subcomandante _______. | Marcos | 59%
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| What year did the Paris Commune take place? | 1871 | 53%
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| In what state did the Zapatista uprising take place? | Chiapas | 53%
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| Who wrote the book "Orientalism", published in 1978. A book about how the representation of Asia is represented in the West in a stereotyped way that is regarded as embodying a colonialist attitude. | Edward Said | 47%
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| Fusako Shigenobu is a Japanese communist activist, writer, and the founder and leader of the now-disbanded terrorist group. She is currently in prison. | Japanese Red Army | 47%
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| What was the name of the British soldiers brought into Ireland to help suppress revolutionary independence efforts? | Black N Tans | 41%
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| Antonio Francesco Gramsci was an Italian Marxist philosopher, linguist, journalist, writer, and politician. He wrote on philosophy, political theory, sociology, history, and linguistics. He was a founding member and one-time leader of the Italian Communist Party. Imprisoned for 11 years, he wrote several prison journals. What Marxist theory is widely attributed to Gramsci? | Hegemony | 41%
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| Which of these people is an anarchist, NOT a socialist? | Lucy Parsons | 41%
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| What's the name of the most well know female Zapatista leader? Comandanta _______. | Ramona | 41%
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| A famous film by socialist filmmaker Ken Loach about the Irish fight for independence. | The Wind That Shakes the Barley | 41%
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| The leftist, indigenous Zapatista uprising took place in Southern Mexico in what year? | 1994 | 35%
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| A German Marxist, philosopher, musicologist, and social theorist. He was a leading member of the Frankfurt School of critical theory, Theodor _____ | Adorno | 29%
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| Which of these people is an socialist, NOT an anarchist? | Keir Hardie | 24%
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| Easter Rising was a leftist uprising in Dublin in 1919. It was quickly suppressed by the British. Which of these people was NOT at easter rising? | Robert Peel | 24%
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| Which of these women did NOT fight in the Algerian war of Independence with the FLN? | Marzieh Ahmadi | 18%
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