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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. Economists make order out of what, in Helibroner's opinion?
(a) Social chaos.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Money.
(d) The abyss.

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

3. What kind of survival has man faced from the earliest days on?
(a) Social.
(b) Marital.
(c) Economic.
(d) Monetary.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The second stop on Heilbroner's historical journey describes the number of markets visited by one man in 1550, in what country?

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

3. The new philosophy of survival with the market system brought with it what new social problem?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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