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

2. What is one characteristic of the Mediterranean Sea which made it favorable for infant navigation?
(a) No islands.
(b) No tides.
(c) Shallow water.
(d) Many harbors.

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

4. In some measure, every man in a growing commercial society becomes what?
(a) A tinker.
(b) A farmer.
(c) A merchant.
(d) A scholar.

5. Commonly, why does man #1 help man #2?
(a) Because man #2 has agreed to pay man #1.
(b) Because man #1 has a capacity for benevolence.
(c) Because man #1 derives personal benefit from helping man #2.
(d) Because man #1 sees man #2's genuine need for help.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What was the original form of the metals used for commerce?

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