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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Malthus continued to work on his theory of population and the food supply and assumed that humans could double their number every _________. (fill in the blank)
(a) Fifty Years.
(b) Twenty years.
(c) Thirty-five years.
(d) Twenty-five years.

2. "Each should do what was to his best monetary advantage" describes what system?
(a) Religion.
(b) Market.
(c) Tradition.
(d) Authority.

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

4. Eighteenth-century England thought the population to be somewhere around 5.5 million people, and it was not expected to double for approximately how many years?
(a) Seven hundred years.
(b) Five hundred years.
(c) Two hundred years.
(d) Six hundred years.

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

6. Mill's book pointed out that the true province of economic law was production, not _________. (fill in the blank)
(a) Distribution.
(b) Wages.
(c) Profits.
(d) Factories.

7. What year did the British Labor Movement begin?
(a) 1776.
(b) 1778.
(c) 1801.
(d) 1833.

8. How many years did it take Adam Smith to finish The Wealth of Nations?
(a) Five.
(b) Twelve.
(c) Three.
(d) Fourteen.

9. What is the most worldly of all man's activities, according to Heilbroner?
(a) The need for food.
(b) The need for religion.
(c) The drive for wealth.
(d) The drive for companionship.

10. _________ was based on true wealth only being created in agriculture. (fill in the blank)
(a) Macroeconomics.
(b) Physiocracy.
(c) Laissez-faire.
(d) Agricracy.

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

12. Economists make order out of what, in Helibroner's opinion?
(a) The abyss.
(b) Money.
(c) Social chaos.
(d) Nothing.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Ricardo, which class was the only class in English society which could benefit from its hold on grain prices?

2. In ancient society, there was no need for political economy or to see what made the economy function because it was all based on what?

3. What was detested by factory workers in the late 1700's?

4. John Stuart Mill's book was written when he was in his forties. What is the name of the book?

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

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