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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Gloomy Presentiments of Parson Malthus and David Ricardo.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Eighteenth-century England thought the population to be somewhere around 5.5 million people, and it was not expected to double for approximately how many years?
(a) Two hundred years.
(b) Five hundred years.
(c) Six hundred years.
(d) Seven hundred years.

2. What theory explains that higher wages will call forth more workers because higher wages result in better living conditions and lower mortality figures?
(a) Law of Population.
(b) Law of Economics.
(c) Law of Accumulation.
(d) Law of Assimilation.

3. By what year had crops reached near famine levels in England?
(a) 1776.
(b) 1801.
(c) 1798.
(d) 1813.

4. According to Heilbroner, economists changed the world not through __________, but through power of their ideas. (fill in the blank)
(a) Wealth.
(b) Mischief.
(c) Laughter.
(d) Force.

5. What describes how investment can lead to greater output?
(a) Law of Population.
(b) Law of Accumulation.
(c) Law of Economics.
(d) Law of Assimilation.

Short Answer Questions

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

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. 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)

4. It is the forces of ______ that make the market function according to Adam Smith. (fill in the blank)

5. Most of the featured economists could never master _________. (fill in the blank)

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