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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1, Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What causes the difference between a philosopher and a street porter?
(a) Birth, income, and upbringing.
(b) Natural talent and propensity.
(c) Opportunity, talent, and birth.
(d) Habit, custom, and education.

2. What three ways do we obtain from one another the greater part of those mutual good offices which we stand in need of?
(a) By treaty, by barter, or by purchase.
(b) By labor, by barter , or by charity.
(c) By ingenuity, by treaty, or by purchase.
(d) By labor, by charity, or by ingenuity.

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

4. What limits the extent of the division of labor?
(a) The population.
(b) The raw products.
(c) The workmen.
(d) The market.

5. In the rude ages of society, what was the common instrument of commerce?
(a) Cattle.
(b) Textiles.
(c) Labor.
(d) Food stuffs.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why are the silks of France better and cheaper than those of England?

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

5. What is one characteristic of the Mediterranean Sea which made it favorable for infant navigation?

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