An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations Quiz | Eight Week Quiz B

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An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations Quiz | Eight Week Quiz B

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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1, Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who are most likely to make improvements upon or invent new machines for manufacture?
(a) The owner of the manufacturing process.
(b) The man who is responsible for the running of the manufacturing process.
(c) Those who work with or make the machines.
(d) The man who repairs and cleans the machines.

2. In what country is the Ganges River?
(a) India.
(b) Italy.
(c) Egypt.
(d) Bengal.

3. What kind of person depends chiefly on the benevolence of this fellow citizens?
(a) A child.
(b) A woman.
(c) An unemployed man.
(d) A beggar.

4. Why are the silks of France better and cheaper than those of England?
(a) Because silk manufacturing is not popular in England.
(b) Because there is little demand for English silk.
(c) Because silk manufacturing is not as well suited to the climate of England as it is to that of France.
(d) Because France has an extreme surplus of silk manufacturers.

5. What word expressed the weight or quantity of metal contained in the first coins?
(a) Purity.
(b) Fineness.
(c) Stamp.
(d) Denomination.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the text, what does this saying describe: "Give me that which I want, and you shall have this which you want"?

2. In some measure, every man in a growing commercial society becomes what?

3. How many times more goods on a broad-wheeled wagon can be carried from London to Edinburgh by water-carriage in the same amount of time?

4. What does the division of labor do for individual workmen?

5. Which is not a reason for the increase of the quantity of work under division of labor?

(see the answer key)

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