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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. What helped bring an end to the religiousness of the population in Europe?
(a) The Italian Renaissance.
(b) The death of the pope.
(c) The Industrial Revolution.
(d) Foreign exploration.

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"?
(a) 1798.
(b) 1776.
(c) 1813.
(d) 1801.

3. What does Heilbroner think is strange about ancient civilizations?
(a) There were no economists.
(b) There was no plan for survival.
(c) There was no currency.
(d) There were no rulers.

4. The second stop on Heilbroner's historical journey describes the number of markets visited by one man in 1550, in what country?
(a) America.
(b) Germany.
(c) France.
(d) England.

5. What has played a central role in population control in the Western hemisphere?
(a) Disease.
(b) Governments.
(c) War.
(d) Birth control.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Ricardo's job?

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

3. By what year had crops reached near famine levels in England?

4. What did Heilbroner say was one of the factors bringing about the economic changes to a market system?

5. _________ is concerned with finding some reason for the cosmos. (fill in the blank)

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