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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. According to Heilbroner, economists changed the world not through __________, but through power of their ideas. (fill in the blank)
(a) Laughter.
(b) Force.
(c) Wealth.
(d) Mischief.

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

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

6. While in prison, who did Saint-Simone claim appeared to him, telling him to become a philosopher?
(a) God.
(b) Charlemagne.
(c) George Washington.
(d) Adam Smith.

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

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

9. It is the forces of ______ that make the market function according to Adam Smith. (fill in the blank)
(a) Nature.
(b) Competition.
(c) Gold.
(d) Wealth.

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

11. Who started New Lanark?
(a) Charles Fourier.
(b) The Duke of York.
(c) Count Henri de Rouvroy de Saint-Simone.
(d) Robert Owen.

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

13. The fact that man is _________ makes survival difficult. (fill in the blank)
(a) A slow learner.
(b) Antisocial.
(c) Self-centered.
(d) Clever.

14. What describes how investment can lead to greater output?
(a) Law of Assimilation.
(b) Law of Economics.
(c) Law of Population.
(d) Law of Accumulation.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What year was The Wealth of Nations published?

2. What did all of the these economists do?

3. _________ is a manner of organizing society so all tasks are performed. (fill in the blank)

4. Most of the featured economists could never master _________. (fill in the blank)

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

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