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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1, Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does division of labor affect the time required for the manufacturing process?
(a) It lengthens the overall time of production.
(b) It reduces the time between a workman's different tasks.
(c) It lengthens the time of production while producing a better product.
(d) It reduces the time for a product to be completed.

2. Under what circumstance would every man have to perform exactly the same duties and do exactly the same work?
(a) If there were no organized society.
(b) If there were no manufacturers of commodities.
(c) If there were no truck, barter, and exchange.
(d) If there were no difference of talent.

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?
(a) 50.
(b) 55.
(c) 45.
(d) 40.

4. 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 knowledge that his productive life enriches the lives of others.
(d) The hope that his expertise will allow him to excel in even greater endeavors.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What causes the difference between a philosopher and a street porter?

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

3. Where are the separation of different trades and employments from one another generally found?

4. What kind of business does not lend itself to many subdivisions of labor?

5. What three ways do we obtain from one another the greater part of those mutual good offices which we stand in need of?

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