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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1, Chapter 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the division of labor do for individual workmen?
(a) It reduces every man's job to one simple operation.
(b) It enables each man to work fewer hours.
(c) It teaches each man a new skill.
(d) It gives each man more work to do.

2. What was the common instrument of commerce among the ancient Romans?
(a) Iron.
(b) Copper.
(c) Silver.
(d) Gold.

3. What is one consequence for society where the division of labor is practiced?
(a) Manufacturing is always growing.
(b) All men are capable of learning a new trade.
(c) There is no unemployment.
(d) Wealth is enjoyed by even the lowest classes of people.

4. What do princes and sovereign states frequently do with their coinage?
(a) Augment the quantity of pure metal contained in their coins.
(b) Substitute the quantity of pure metal contained in their coins.
(c) Refuse to change the quantity of pure metal contained in their coins.
(d) Diminish the quantity of pure metal contained in their coins.

5. Which country's inland navigation caused its early improvement?
(a) Italy.
(b) Egypt.
(c) Turkey.
(d) Greece.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who are most likely to make improvements upon or invent new machines for manufacture?

2. How did the idea of division of labor come about?

3. In the rude ages of society, what was the common instrument of commerce?

4. What encourages every man to apply himself to an occupation and cultivate whatever talent he may possess for that particular business?

5. What is a common characteristic for a workman under division of labor?

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