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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 was one problem with the use of rude metals?
(a) Mining them.
(b) Keeping them safe.
(c) Transporting them.
(d) Weighing them.

2. What is the common instrument of commerce and exchanges in some parts of the coast of India?
(a) Salt.
(b) Shells.
(c) Sugar.
(d) Tobacco.

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 enjoy the highest degree of industry and improvement.
(c) In those countries which have the least degree of industry and improvement.
(d) In those countries which are have completed their industry and improvement.

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

5. What is a common characteristic for a workman under division of labor?
(a) Every workman has increased purchasing power.
(b) Every workman has the means to improve himself.
(c) Every workman produces more than he needs.
(d) Every workman is equal to every other workman.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the common instrument of commerce among the ancient Spartans?

2. Which is not a reason for the increase of the quantity of work under division of labor?

3. What limits the extent of the division of labor?

4. In what country is the Ganges River?

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

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