View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Victorian World and the Underworld of Economics.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Malthus continued to work on his theory of population and the food supply and assumed that humans could double their number every _________. (fill in the blank)
(a) Fifty Years.
(b) Twenty-five years.
(c) Twenty years.
(d) Thirty-five years.

2. Who failed to recognize the wealth creating ability of labor?
(a) Locke.
(b) Hume.
(c) Quesnay.
(d) Smith.

3. Who presented his theory of economics in Calculus of Pleasure and Pain?
(a) Leon Walras.
(b) Francis Ysidro Edgeworth.
(c) Stanley Jevrons.
(d) Frederic Bastiat.

4. What was detested by factory workers in the late 1700's?
(a) Managers.
(b) Machinery.
(c) Baths.
(d) Mills.

5. While in prison, who did Saint-Simone claim appeared to him, telling him to become a philosopher?
(a) God.
(b) Charlemagne.
(c) Adam Smith.
(d) George Washington.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Victorian period marked the beginning of what important movement?

2. What has played a central role in population control in the Western hemisphere?

3. Only because man is ___________ he has succeeded. (fill in the blank)

4. The first stop on Heilbroner's description of how economists became necessary to society is France in what year?

5. Heilbroner describes a trial of a wealthy man before the church in Boston in what year?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 189 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample