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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 is the biggest danger facing a modern community?
(a) Excommunication.
(b) Economics.
(c) Human unpredictability.
(d) Human predictability.

2. What took care of early man's inner conflict between himself and the group?
(a) The elders.
(b) Medicine.
(c) The environment.
(d) Psychiatry.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was Ricardo's job?

3. The first stop on Heilbroner's description of how economists became necessary to society is France in what year?

4. According to Heilbroner, these men who have had such an impact on society are known as _________. (fill in the blank)

5. Heilbroner says the work of economist is both exciting and _________. (fill in the blank)

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