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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through For Chapters 11-Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. India has a very low GDP per capita, and it also has over how many cases of leprosy according to the author in Chapter 9?
(a) 70,000.
(b) 100,000.
(c) 50,000.
(d) 35,000.

2. In order to get a true understanding of an economy, there are nine factors one should consider along with the GDP according to the author in Chapter 9. What is the eighth?
(a) Demographics.
(b) Unemployment.
(c) Income inequality.
(d) Poverty.

3. The United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference was a gathering of how many delegates?
(a) 435.
(b) 560.
(c) 730.
(d) 975.

4. Nonperforming loans and bad investments caused the banks to suffer in Iceland, and by the fall of 2008, how many major banks in the country were defunct according to the author in Chapter 11?
(a) 5.
(b) 12.
(c) 3.
(d) 8.

5. According to Burton G. Malkiel in the Forward, economists often don't show a connection to what?
(a) Wall Street.
(b) Everyday life.
(c) Mathematics.
(d) Statistics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a professionally managed type of collective investment scheme that pools money from many investors to buy stocks, bonds, short-term money market instruments, and/or other securities?

2. What is the ninth factor one should consider along with the GDP to understand an economy, according to the author in Chapter 9?

3. When did the Cuban Revolution begin?

4. Where did politicians try to deal with the level of pollution by limiting driving based on license plate numbers, according to the author in Chapter 2?

5. What, according to the author, motivates talented teachers to leave to go onto other professions?

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