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Anarchy (essay) - Quiz
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  • 1. Who is the author of the essay 'Anarchy'?
A) Errico Malatesta
B) Zhang Li
C) Jacques Ghiloni
D) Peter Kropotkin
  • 2. In what year was the first version of 'Anarchy' written?
A) 1892
B) 1884
C) 1891
D) 1907
  • 3. Which ideological group did Malatesta argue against in this essay?
A) Conservatism
B) Marxism
C) Liberalism
D) Social Democracy
  • 4. What is the primary focus of Malatesta's argument in the essay?
A) Direct action and shared methods
B) Parliamentary reform
C) Individual property rights
D) Utopian fantasy
  • 5. What happened to the text between 1891 and 1892?
A) It was banned by the Italian government
B) It was republished in a revised English translation
C) It was burned in South America
D) It was rewritten by Kropotkin
  • 6. In which British publication did the 1891-1892 translation appear?
A) The Anarchist Review
B) Freedom
C) The Revolutionary Times
D) Social Justice
  • 7. Who translated the work into Chinese in 1907?
A) A local revolutionary group
B) Zhang Li
C) Errico Malatesta
D) Jacques Ghiloni
  • 8. What is the author's opinion of the State as a neutral force?
A) It is a moral good
B) It is an illusion
C) It is a historical fact
D) It is a necessity
  • 9. How did Malatesta's approach to defining anarchy change in the second version?
A) He avoided defining it too precisely
B) He rejected all previous definitions
C) He provided a strict mathematical model
D) He explicitly advocated for anarchist communism
  • 10. According to the text, why did Malatesta write 'Anarchy'?
A) To earn an academic degree
B) To promote individualist anarchism
C) To secure financial gain
D) To coordinate direct action
  • 11. What does Malatesta define as the sum total of political, legislative, and judicial institutions?
A) The Corporation
B) The Commune
C) The Church
D) The State
  • 12. Which region is mentioned as having adopted the text as a generalistic anarchist reference?
A) Eastern Europe
B) Scandinavia
C) South America
D) North America
  • 13. How does the text describe the popularity of 'Anarchy'?
A) It is one of the best-selling anarchist books in history
B) It was only read by elites
C) It was ignored by the public
D) It was immediately forgotten
  • 14. What is the status of the 1973 and 1994 English translations?
A) They are considered lost
B) They are considered plagiarized
C) They are considered fictionalized
D) They are considered more accurate than the initial translation
  • 15. What did Jacques Ghiloni state regarding Malatesta's work?
A) Anarchy is solely a theory of economy
B) Anarchy is an ultimate goal and a state of affairs with universal value
C) Anarchy is defined by strict rules
D) Anarchy is a failure of logic
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