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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. Heilbroner believes economists wield power greater than _________. (fill in the blank)
(a) Sword and scepter.
(b) Armies.
(c) Kings.
(d) God.

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

3. Heilbroner begins the book by saying it is limited to a small number of men who did more for history with _________ than famous men did. (fill in the blank)
(a) Wealth.
(b) Power.
(c) War.
(d) Theories.

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

5. Adam Smith was considered a non-conformist because he refused to do what before classes?
(a) Pray.
(b) Dress.
(c) Prepare.
(d) Lecture.

Short Answer Questions

1. By what decade was Malthus proved wrong?

2. One of the featured economists was never more than what?

3. At the beginning of the 1800's, England had two strong classes emerge; an _________ class and an agricultural class. (fill in the blank)

4. Adam Smith defined wealth in terms of what?

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

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