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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. In what year did Reverend Thomas Robert Malthus publish "An Essay on the Principle of Population as it Affects the Future Improvement of Society"?
(a) 1798.
(b) 1801.
(c) 1813.
(d) 1776.

2. Who started New Lanark?
(a) The Duke of York.
(b) Count Henri de Rouvroy de Saint-Simone.
(c) Charles Fourier.
(d) Robert Owen.

3. Ricardo was the son of a Jewish merchant banker from _________. (fill in the blank)
(a) France.
(b) Holland.
(c) Germany.
(d) England.

4. What was the length of the common workday during the early days of the Industrial Revolution?
(a) Twelve hours.
(b) Sixteen hours.
(c) Eight hours.
(d) Ten hours.

5. Francis Ysidro Edgeworth was a graduate of what university?
(a) Oxford.
(b) Yale.
(c) The School of Economic Thought.
(d) Harvard.

Short Answer Questions

1. What year did Ricardo die?

2. What is the biggest danger facing a modern community?

3. Adam Smith defined wealth in terms of what?

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

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

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