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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 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) War.
(b) Wealth.
(c) Power.
(d) Theories.

2. Only because man is ___________ he has succeeded. (fill in the blank)
(a) Socially cooperative.
(b) Invincible.
(c) Antisocial.
(d) Clever.

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

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

5. By what year had crops reached near famine levels in England?
(a) 1798.
(b) 1776.
(c) 1801.
(d) 1813.

Short Answer Questions

1. What year was The Wealth of Nations published?

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

3. What kind of survival has man faced from the earliest days on?

4. By what decade was Malthus proved wrong?

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

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