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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. How are a philosopher and a street porter the same?
(a) Their family life would be very similar.
(b) Their goals for life would be very similar.
(c) Their first six years of life would have been very similar.
(d) Their desire and motivations would be very similar.

2. In some measure, every man in a growing commercial society becomes what?
(a) A scholar.
(b) A merchant.
(c) A tinker.
(d) A farmer.

3. What opens an even more extensive market to every sort of industry?
(a) Improved inland transporation.
(b) Faster horses.
(c) Land-carriage.
(d) Water-carriage.

4. In what country is the Ganges River?
(a) Egypt.
(b) India.
(c) Italy.
(d) Bengal.

5. What is the common instrument of commerce and exchanges in Abyssinia?
(a) Salt.
(b) Tobacco.
(c) Sugar.
(d) Shells.

Short Answer Questions

1. What becomes the common instrument of commerce when barter ceases?

2. What was the original price, the first purchase cost, for all things?

3. How does an individual live within a civilized society?

4. How many times more goods on a broad-wheeled wagon can be carried from London to Edinburgh by water-carriage in the same amount of time?

5. What commodity would a butcher be unlikely to exchange for?

(see the answer key)

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