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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 2, Chapter 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which Mediterranean country seems to have been the first in which either agriculture or manufacturers were cultivated and improved to any considerable degree?
(a) Italy.
(b) Egypt.
(c) Turkey.
(d) Greece.

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

3. Under division of labor, what generally supplies a man's wants?
(a) The produce of society's labor.
(b) The produce of other men's labor.
(c) The produce of a man's own labor.
(d) The produce of the country's labor.

4. What kind of business does not lend itself to many subdivisions of labor?
(a) Textile manufacturing.
(b) Ship building.
(c) Foundry.
(d) Agriculture.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a common characteristic for a workman under division of labor?

2. What is capital?

3. What encourages every man to apply himself to an occupation and cultivate whatever talent he may possess for that particular business?

4. What do princes and sovereign states frequently do with their coinage?

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

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