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

2. What does the division of labor do for a manufacturer?
(a) It decreases the productive powers of labor.
(b) It increases the productive powers of labor.
(c) It simplifies the productive powers of labor.
(d) It complicates the productive powers of labor.

3. Where are the separation of different trades and employments from one another generally found?
(a) In those countries which have yet to pursue industry and improvement.
(b) In those countries which have the least degree of industry and improvement.
(c) In those countries which enjoy the highest degree of industry and improvement.
(d) In those countries which are have completed their industry and improvement.

4. Which is not a reason for the increase of the quantity of work under division of labor?
(a) The employment of more workmen.
(b) The increase of the workmen's dexterity.
(c) The invention of machines which enable one man to do the work of many.
(d) Time efficiencies.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one consequence for society where the division of labor is practiced?

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

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

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 opens an even more extensive market to every sort of industry?

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