1. Which of the following leaders was not driven from power by CIA conspiracies?

c. Mikhail Gorbachev in the USSR (1991)

2. After WWII, the CIA and other U.S. intelligence agencies employed Nazis and other fascists and Japanese imperialist war criminals because

b. they sought to use the fascists’ and imperialists’ experience and knowledge in fighting Communists and other anti-fascists and anti-imperialists in fighting the cold war.

3. Successive U.S. administrations supported the right-wing Iraqi Baath party and the later Saddam Hussein Baath dictatorship

a. to subvert a socialist-oriented military government in the 1960s.
b. to fight the Communist Party of Iraq.
c. to launch a war against Iran in the 1980s.
d. All of the above

4. Marxists see U.S. policy in the Middle East as which of the following?

a. An attempt to control the oil, water, and territory of an important region in terms of the global economy

5. Marxists propose which of the following alternatives to U.S. policies in both the Middle East and other regions?

a. Support for regional economic development that will bring nations together
b. Support for workers parties, trade and other mass organizations that will enable the people to fight for and defend their rights
c. Opposition to both U.S. military interventionism and CIA conspiracies to control the region for U.S. capital
d. All of the above

Score:

0 wrong: Theoretician. Write an article! Teach a class!
1 wrong: Developed Marxist. Form a study group, join the party.
2 to 3 wrong: Class-conscious worker – study harder.
4 to 5 wrong: Danger! deviations possible. study and then study some more lest you drift into the marsh of opportunism!