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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was one consequence when the German and Scythian nations overran the western provinces of the Roman empire?
(a) The towns were razed.
(b) The inhabitants immgrated to other countries.
(c) The inhabitants were made slaves.
(d) The country was left uncultivated.

2. According to the author why, two or three centuries before, were his British ancestors mostly idle concerning industry?
(a) There was no sufficient encouragement to earn a wage.
(b) There was no sufficient industry to work in.
(c) There was no sufficient wage to work in industry.
(d) There was no sufficient encouragement to industry.

3. What to British manufacturers import from the coasts of the Baltic?
(a) Sugar and rum.
(b) Cotton and linen.
(c) Molasses and sugar cane.
(d) Flax and hemp.

4. What are the people who employ their own capital called?
(a) Productive laborers.
(b) Unproductive laborers.
(c) Unproductive consumers.
(d) Productive consumers.

5. What happens when the quantity of silver increases?
(a) Its value is unaffected.
(b) Its value is diminished.
(c) Its value is under appreciated.
(d) Its value is increased.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the first article in the treaty of commerce between England and Portugal?

2. What is the whole annual produce of the land and labor of every country used for?

3. What are the natural consequences of the law of primogeniture?

4. What regulates the quantity of materials and provisions that a town buys?

5. At the time the book was written, what increased the price of gold exported from Spain and Portugal?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the capital of a retailer and manufacturer differ?

2. What are the two ways to impose land tax?

3. What were the consequences of the German and Scythian nations overrunning the western provinces of the Roman empire?

4. How is the interest rate for borrowed money determined?

5. The whole annual produce of the land and labor of every country, which comes either from the ground, or from the hands of the productive laborers, is divided into what two parts?

6. What are the three ways capital is used in the natural growth of a new society?

7. What is the principal cause for the rapid progress of the American colonies towards wealth?

8. What is a drawback?

9. What is the difference between the two kinds of labor?

10. What are the two ways a borrower can use borrowed stock?

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