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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Heresies of John Maynard Keynes.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year did Reverend Thomas Robert Malthus publish "An Essay on the Principle of Population as it Affects the Future Improvement of Society"?
(a) 1798.
(b) 1813.
(c) 1776.
(d) 1801.

2. John Stuart Mill's book was written when he was in his forties. What is the name of the book?
(a) The Wealth of Nations.
(b) Principles of Political Economy.
(c) Essay on the Principles of Population.
(d) Principles of Economic Success.

3. What was the title of Veblen's first book?
(a) The Theory of the Leisure Class.
(b) The Politics of Economics.
(c) The Theory of Business Enterprise.
(d) The Condition of the Working Class.

4. Veblen's family sent him to college to become __________. (fill in the blank)
(a) A lawyer.
(b) A doctor.
(c) A teacher.
(d) A minister.

5. In what year did Keynes publish his Tract on Monetary Reform?
(a) 1929.
(b) 1923.
(c) 1928.
(d) 1933.

Short Answer Questions

1. Veblen was fascinated with how society was dominated by __________. (fill in the blank)

2. Veblen attacked the rich as he looked for what he called the __________. (fill in the blank)

3. Saint-Simone was a firm believer in _________. (fill in the blank)

4. Hobson's views fit right into the views of whom?

5. What is the most worldly of all man's activities, according to Heilbroner?

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