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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. Which occupation requires a great town?
(a) Butcher.
(b) Sailor.
(c) Farmer.
(d) Poet.

2. How are a philosopher and a street porter the same?
(a) Their desire and motivations would be very similar.
(b) Their goals for life would be very similar.
(c) Their family life would be very similar.
(d) Their first six years of life would have been very similar.

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

4. What is the common instrument of commerce and exchanges in Abyssinia?
(a) Salt.
(b) Sugar.
(c) Tobacco.
(d) Shells.

5. What opens an even more extensive market to every sort of industry?
(a) Improved inland transporation.
(b) Water-carriage.
(c) Land-carriage.
(d) Faster horses.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the common instrument of commerce and exchanges in some parts of the coast of India?

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

3. According to Homer, how much did the armor of Diomede cost?

4. What word expressed the weight or quantity of metal contained in the first coins?

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

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