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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who wrote the Tableau Economique?
(a) Quesnay.
(b) Locke.
(c) Hume.
(d) Smith.

3. The mistakes of economist are nothing short of _________. (fill in the blank)
(a) Rare.
(b) Impossible.
(c) Calamitous.
(d) Inconsequential.

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

5. Most of the featured economists could never master _________. (fill in the blank)
(a) The social world.
(b) Their personal lives.
(c) Wall Street.
(d) Their personal finances.

6. At what university was Adam Smith on the faculty?
(a) University of Glasgow.
(b) Harvard.
(c) Oxford.
(d) University of England.

7. Ricardo was the son of a Jewish merchant banker from _________. (fill in the blank)
(a) Germany.
(b) England.
(c) Holland.
(d) France.

8. The first stop on Heilbroner's description of how economists became necessary to society is France in what year?
(a) 1630.
(b) 1550.
(c) 1776.
(d) 1305.

9. Heilbroner describes a trial of a wealthy man before the church in Boston in what year?
(a) 1305.
(b) 1776.
(c) 1550.
(d) 1639.

10. Charles Fourier is classified as _________. (fill in the blank)
(a) A Gloomy Economist.
(b) An Utopian Socialist.
(c) A Labor Unionist.
(d) An Economic Revolutionary.

11. Assigning tasks by command to ensure that all necessary tasks are performed is what type of system?
(a) Authority.
(b) Religion.
(c) Market.
(d) Tradition.

12. What did Heilbroner say was one of the factors bringing about the economic changes to a market system?
(a) The Industrial Revolution.
(b) The growth of factories.
(c) Foreign exploration.
(d) The end of religion.

13. The followers of Saint-Simone proposed an end to _________. (fill in the blank)
(a) Private property.
(b) Democracy.
(c) Villages of Cooperation.
(d) Industrial production.

14. In Mills' model, wages would rise as a result of accumulation of capital. Eventually, the accumulation process would come to an end and enter what stage?
(a) Phanlansteries.
(b) Capitalism.
(c) Communism.
(d) Benign socialism.

15. The second stop on Heilbroner's historical journey describes the number of markets visited by one man in 1550, in what country?
(a) France.
(b) Germany.
(c) America.
(d) England.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Adam Smith was a lecturer in what area?

3. What helped bring an end to the religiousness of the population in Europe?

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

5. Who is to blame for the lack of glamour in the field of economics?

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