Q 01/05

Which physicist made the case for a planned economy in a 1949 essay for the socialist magazine Monthly Review?

A) Niels Bohr

B) Enrico Fermi

C) Albert Einstein

D) Richard Feynman

Answer · why

C) Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein blamed the profit motive for cycles of booms and depressions and for encouraging selfishness. His essay ran in the very first issue of...

Q 02/05

Which famous American, portrayed as a child in The Miracle Worker, joined the Socialist Party of America in 1909?

A) Helen Keller

B) Amelia Earhart

C) Jane Addams

D) Clara Barton

Answer · why

A) Helen Keller

Helen Keller campaigned and wrote in support of the working class until 1921, and in 1920 she helped to found the American Civil Liberties Union.

Q 03/05

Which American patriotic text was composed in 1892 by Francis Bellamy, a Baptist minister and Christian socialist?

A) America the Beautiful

B) The Pledge of Allegiance

C) The Star-Spangled Banner

D) Battle Hymn of the Republic

Answer · why

B) The Pledge of Allegiance

The Pledge of Allegiance was composed for the children's magazine The Youth's Companion, as part of a schools celebration of Columbus Day. Its referen...

Q 04/05

Which German chancellor created state health and pension insurance in the 1880s to draw workers away from socialism?

A) Paul von Hindenburg

B) Leo von Caprivi

C) Bernhard von Bülow

D) Otto von Bismarck

Answer · why

D) Otto von Bismarck

Otto von Bismarck had first tried to crush the movement with his Anti-Socialist Laws. His health insurance bill of 1883 was followed by accident cover...

Q 05/05

Which English novelist, shot in the throat fighting in Spain, said he wrote for democratic socialism?

A) Aldous Huxley

B) George Orwell

C) Graham Greene

D) Evelyn Waugh

Answer · why

B) George Orwell

George Orwell made the claim in his 1946 essay Why I Write, adding that every serious line he had written since 1936 was also aimed against totalitari...