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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. What causes the difference between a philosopher and a street porter?
(a) Natural talent and propensity.
(b) Birth, income, and upbringing.
(c) Habit, custom, and education.
(d) Opportunity, talent, and birth.

2. In all countries, what do men prefer in exchange for commodities?
(a) Precious metals.
(b) Labor.
(c) Like goods.
(d) Gem stones.

3. Under what circumstance would every man have to perform exactly the same duties and do exactly the same work?
(a) If there were no manufacturers of commodities.
(b) If there were no organized society.
(c) If there were no truck, barter, and exchange.
(d) If there were no difference of talent.

4. How long would it take for a broad-wheeled wagon, attended by two men, and drawn by eight horses, to carry four tons of goods between London and Edinburgh?
(a) Six weeks.
(b) Five weeks.
(c) Seven weeks.
(d) Four weeks.

5. 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?
(a) 50.
(b) 40.
(c) 55.
(d) 45.

Short Answer Questions

1. What opens an even more extensive market to every sort of industry?

2. Why are the silks of France better and cheaper than those of England?

3. Originally, what did sailors fear?

4. Which Mediterranean country seems to have been the first in which either agriculture or manufacturers were cultivated and improved to any considerable degree?

5. What is the common instrument of commerce and exchanges in Abyssinia?

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