1. July 4th celebrates the Declaration of Independence in the United States. The declaration was

b. a decisive moment in history declaring and advancing a bourgeois (capitalist) democratic and anti-feudal revolution.

2. July 14 celebrates the fall of the Bastille and the beginnings of the French Revolution in France. For Marxists, July 14 was

c. the beginning of a bourgeois (capitalist) political revolution against an absolutist monarchy and a feudal aristocratic landlord class.

3. July 26th celebrates in Cuba

d. the failed 1953 uprising against the Batista dictatorship which was a harbinger of the later successful Cuban revolution.

4. Those who see revolutions in terms of straight-line victories should remember the month of July also saw

a. the defeat in revolutionary Russia (1917) of the initial Bolshevik-led rising against the provisional government.

5. Tom Paine’s writings were an influential force in both the American and French revolutions, serving to mobilize masses to support the former and to defend the latter from its international enemies. In these writings Paine

d. All of the above

6. The huge recent “No Kings” demonstrations through the country are related to July 4th because

d. All of the above

Your score:

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