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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. _________ is a manner of organizing society so all tasks are performed. (fill in the blank)
(a) Religion.
(b) Social compatibility.
(c) Tradition.
(d) Self-reliance.

2. Mill's book pointed out that the true province of economic law was production, not _________. (fill in the blank)
(a) Profits.
(b) Distribution.
(c) Factories.
(d) Wages.

3. Adam Smith left his university position to become a private tutor and traveled through which country?
(a) Russia.
(b) America.
(c) China.
(d) France.

4. Where was Adam Smith educated?
(a) Harvard.
(b) University of England.
(c) Oxford.
(d) University of Glasgow.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Adam Smith defined wealth in terms of what?

2. In what year did Reverend Thomas Robert Malthus publish "An Essay on the Principle of Population as it Affects the Future Improvement of Society"?

3. What is production dependent upon?

4. Ricardo was the son of a Jewish merchant banker from _________. (fill in the blank)

5. According to Malthus, the size of the population is limited by what?

(see the answer key)

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