1a: I think that British Conservative leader Winston Churchill said something to this effect and it's a very popular quotation. Catchy, too. But Lenin would have said that the Capitalist Democracy in America could be greatly improved. Please check the reading or just pick another answer.

1b: Lenin's main point was that capitalist democracy isn't good enough for the workers. Please check the reading or just pick another answer

1c: RIGHT! Lenin was not against democracy, he was all for it. But he thought that capitalist democracy maintained the class rule of the capitalists. Please skip to the next question.

1d: I don't think Lenin mentioned God in this pamphlet. Please check the reading or just pick another answer.

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2a: If you studied dialectical materialism in another module, you already know that nothing and nobody are really "equal." Besides, Lenin goes to great lengths in the pamphlet to talk about class differences. Please check the reading or just pick another answer

2b: If no one benefits, then why have we struggled for more than two centuries for more democracy? Please check the reading or just pick another answer

2c: The idea of people being "more equal" probably originated from George Orwell's anti-communist satire, Animal Farm. Lenin didn't mention it. Please check the reading or just pick another answer

2d: RIGHT! Please skip to the next question

3a: RIGHT! He makes the point several times that the ideas of class, capitalist democracy, and the dictatorship of the proletariat did not originate with him, but with Marx and Engels. Please skip to the next question

3b: I'm not sure Lenin studied the Bible much. At least he didn't mention it in this pamphlet. Please check the reading or just pick another answer

3c: Lenin's older brother was apparently a very brave but not well informed revolutionary. Lenin made it a point to be well informed. Please check the reading or just pick another answer

3d: It's commonly thrown about that the world's peoples have a "yearning" for American-style democracy. Lenin never claimed to have been born with such leanings. He studied hard. Please check the reading or just pick another answer

4a: From the pamphlet, I get the idea that Lenin truly was hoping for more revolutions to bolster the Soviets, but he was careful to say that there was no timetable involved. Please check the reading or just pick another answer

4b: RIGHT! Lenin thought the Soviet Union was making a great contribution even if it had been overthrown immediately! Please skip to the next question

4c: In the pamphlet, Lenin touted Soviet democracy as far superior to capitalist democracy. Please check the reading or just pick another answer

4d: Americans are always told that they are the envy of the world, even after America dropped way behind other industrialized nations in terms of quality of life. Lenin didn't tell us that. Please check the reading or just pick another answer

5a: The minority of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party opposed taking power even when the majority did it. As a world movement (Second International) they continued to oppose the Soviet Union and anyone who wanted to help it. Seventy years later, they claimed that their lifelong opposition had been justified as the Soviet Union caved in. I don't think so, but if you do, feel free to add your arguments in the feedback section. Or please check the reading or pick another answer.

5b: A lot of intellectuals around the world say that they supported the Soviet Union in its early days, but turned against it later on. They might claim that Lenin's leadership, had it lasted longer, would have caused the Soviet Union to do better. Some of them aligned with Leon Trotsky after he was expelled in 1928. I'm skeptical of these "great man" versions of history. Some changed their allegiance after 1958, some after 1965, some even after the Soviet Union was no more. Please use the feedback section to register your opinion. . Or please check the reading or pick another answer.

5c: Blaming Stalin is certainly a popular choice. I'm always a little skeptical with the "great man" or even the "great villain man" version of history. If you think Stalin was evil, or if you think he was good, you still have to explain the system within which he came to power. Please use the feedback section to register your opinion. . Or please check the reading or pick another answer.

5d: RIGHT! Imperialism did everything possible to undermine and destroy the Soviet Union, and they celebrated when they finally succeeded. I think answer 5f is also right. Please use the feedback section to register your opinion.

5e: This answer is clearly wrong. Even if you believed that the imperialist nations did not do evertything possible to insure the ruin of the Soviet Union, you'd have to concede that they created the bloodbaths in Central America and that they are trying to starve out the Cubans today. Or please check the reading or pick another answer.

5f: RIGHT! There is no general agreement among revolutionaries as to the existence and demise of the Soviet Union. But surely we can agree that they would have done better if the rest of us had pitched in more. If people ask me, "What did the Soviet Union do wrong?" I usually answer, "I don't know, but what did YOU do to help?" I think answer 5d was also right. Please use the feedback section to register your opinion.