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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Anatomy of Compromise.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the two most common metals used as a medium of exchange?
(a) Gold and bronze.
(b) Gold and tin.
(c) Gold and silver.
(d) Gold and iron.

2. What does the author believe is the basic tool of business?
(a) Labor.
(b) Wages.
(c) Land.
(d) Values.

3. The first labor laws aimed at children are enacted in what year?
(a) 1788.
(b) 1798.
(c) 1818.
(d) 1808.

4. Who does the author predict will win when there is a conflict between groups with the same principles?
(a) The man with the most power.
(b) The man with the most consistent behavior.
(c) The man with the most altruism.
(d) The man with the most knowledge.

5. How does the author refer to a principle?
(a) As a proven truth.
(b) As a discovered truth.
(c) As a selected truth.
(d) As a general truth.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the courts protect?

2. What type of businessmen does the author feel are persecuted?

3. What does the author believe is the basic tool of the bureaucrat?

4. In a gold-standard system, gold will flow from a low-interest-rate country to where?

5. Which British civil servant says the U.S. antitrust laws cannot be understood?

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