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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Economic Revolution.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many of the economists featured in the book made their own fortune?
(a) Seven.
(b) Four.
(c) Nine.
(d) Three.

2. What are economists considered by the rules of schoolboy history books?
(a) Nonentities.
(b) Gods.
(c) Princes.
(d) Miracle workers.

3. Heilbroner describes a trial of a wealthy man before the church in Boston in what year?
(a) 1305.
(b) 1550.
(c) 1639.
(d) 1776.

4. What did all of the these economists do?
(a) Influenced a king.
(b) Never married.
(c) Wrote a book.
(d) Died penniless.

5. What did the market system become known as?
(a) Capitalism.
(b) Populism.
(c) Marxism.
(d) Communism.

Short Answer Questions

1. The fact that man is _________ makes survival difficult. (fill in the blank)

2. What took care of early man's inner conflict between himself and the group?

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

4. Heilbroner believes economists wield power greater than _________. (fill in the blank)

5. According to Heilbroner, economists changed the world not through __________, but through power of their ideas. (fill in the blank)

(see the answer key)

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