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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1, Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did the idea of division of labor come about?
(a) It was a consequence of the applied study of manufacturing.
(b) It was the propensity of human nature to truck, barter, and exchange one thing for another.
(c) It was an experiment which owners found to be advantageous.
(d) It was an accident which resulted in positive change.

2. What does the division of labor do for a manufacturer?
(a) It complicates the productive powers of labor.
(b) It simplifies the productive powers of labor.
(c) It increases the productive powers of labor.
(d) It decreases the productive powers of labor.

3. Why are new machines more likely to be invented under division of labor?
(a) New machines are required when labor has been divided.
(b) Men are more likely to discover more efficient methods of production when their entire focus is directed towards a single step of the process.
(c) Men have more time to experiment with various options and potential improvements.
(d) Division of labor promotes speculation and new ideas to be tried.

4. What is one consequence for society where the division of labor is practiced?
(a) Manufacturing is always growing.
(b) All men are capable of learning a new trade.
(c) There is no unemployment.
(d) Wealth is enjoyed by even the lowest classes of people.

5. What can be said for division of labor for all kinds of manufacturing?
(a) Many individuals and processes come together to complete a product.
(b) Division of labor does not affect the quantity of products manufactured.
(c) The quality of products manufactured are improved greatly.
(d) Machines replace many workmen who are moved to other jobs.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Under what circumstance would every man have to perform exactly the same duties and do exactly the same work?

3. Originally, what did sailors fear?

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

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

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