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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 encourages every man to apply himself to an occupation and cultivate whatever talent he may possess for that particular business?
(a) The knowledge that his surplus of production can be exchanged for something he needs.
(b) The desire that the knowledge of his occupation will be passed down to his sons and grandsons.
(c) The hope that his expertise will allow him to excel in even greater endeavors.
(d) The knowledge that his productive life enriches the lives of others.

2. How does an individual live within a civilized society?
(a) He needs the cooperation and assistance of many other people.
(b) He is completely independent of other people.
(c) He needs the cooperation and assistance of only his friends.
(d) His dependence or independence is entirely up to him.

3. What kind of person depends chiefly on the benevolence of this fellow citizens?
(a) A beggar.
(b) An unemployed man.
(c) A woman.
(d) A child.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the division of labor do for individual workmen?

3. 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?

4. Which Mediterranean country seems to have been the first in which either agriculture or manufacturers were cultivated and improved to any considerable degree?

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

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