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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Heresies of John Maynard Keynes.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Francis Ysidro Edgeworth was a graduate of what university?
(a) The School of Economic Thought.
(b) Yale.
(c) Harvard.
(d) Oxford.

2. What is the biggest danger facing a modern community?
(a) Excommunication.
(b) Human unpredictability.
(c) Economics.
(d) Human predictability.

3. The Communist Manifesto first appeared in what year?
(a) 1848.
(b) 1828.
(c) 1833.
(d) 1844.

4. _________ is concerned with finding some reason for the cosmos. (fill in the blank)
(a) Natural Theology.
(b) Religion.
(c) Ethics.
(d) Moral Philosophy.

5. What did President Hoover think would be banished from the nation in the late 1920's?
(a) Investments.
(b) Prosperity.
(c) Discrimination.
(d) Poverty.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Malthus believe was the basic trouble with the world?

2. Marx's radicalism was ____________ rather than political. (fill in the blank)

3. The followers of Saint-Simone proposed an end to _________. (fill in the blank)

4. What helped bring an end to the religiousness of the population in Europe?

5. What has played a central role in population control in the Western hemisphere?

(see the answer key)

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