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

2. According to Malthus, how did nature control the resources of the world?
(a) Through poverty.
(b) Through death.
(c) Through war.
(d) Through famine.

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

4. 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) Theories.
(d) War.

5. Heilbroner says through his book, the reader has embarked on _________. (fill in the blank)
(a) A journey through history.
(b) A journey through hell.
(c) A journey to financial wisdom.
(d) A journey to wealth.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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)

2. What has played a central role in population control in the Western hemisphere?

3. To Heilbroner, what is the common denominator at the core of these men with diverse backgrounds?

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

5. "Each should do what was to his best monetary advantage" describes what system?

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