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. Henry George's views were published in his book called __________. (fill in the blank)
(a) Principles of Political Economy.
(b) Progress and Poverty.
(c) The Wealth of Nations.
(d) The Condition of the Working Class.

2. Between 1870 and 1914, what percentage of English savings were invested abroad?
(a) 50%.
(b) 10%.
(c) 25%.
(d) 20%.

3. What were the economic thinkers of the Victorian period known as?
(a) Political economists.
(b) Mathematicians.
(c) The underground of economics.
(d) Socialists.

4. The fact that man is _________ makes survival difficult. (fill in the blank)
(a) A slow learner.
(b) Self-centered.
(c) Antisocial.
(d) Clever.

5. According to Ricardo, which class was the only class in English society which could benefit from its hold on grain prices?
(a) Landholding.
(b) Industial.
(c) Poverty.
(d) Agricultural.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is production dependent upon?

2. Pamphlets printed at the time of his work compared Malthus with whom?

3. Hobson's views fit right into the views of whom?

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

5. What helped bring an end to the religiousness of the population in Europe?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 191 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample