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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. During the sixteenth century, who claimed all of America as its own?
2. What was the common rate of interest on borrowing through the greater part of Europe before the discovery of the West Indies?
3. What was prohibited from exportation in France until 1764?
4. What does the part of the annual production of the land and labor of any country which replaces a capital do?
5. In Great Britain, what is inserted into the annual land and malt taxes?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the significance of where the capital of a manufacturer resides?
2. In the North American colonies, what does an artificer do who has acquired a little more stock than is necessary for carrying on his own business in supplying the neighboring country?
3. What are the two ways to impose land tax?
4. Why would the proprietor of a colonist's land not dispute over wages, and indeed pay high wages?
5. What is the difference between the two kinds of labor?
6. How does the capital of the wholesale merchant support the productive labor of society?
7. What is necessary for commerce and manufacturing to flourish in a nation?
8. Why does want of parsimony in time of peace necessitate the contracting of debt in time of war?
9. What are bounties?
10. What are the four general maxims regarding taxes?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Explain with examples how restraining, high duties, or absolute prohibitions on the importation of foreign goods that can be produced at home secure a domestic monopoly.
Essay Topic 2
What knowledge and ready organizational systems do colonists carry with them to build a new colony? How does the abundance of land affect the colonists' knowledge and systems?
Essay Topic 3
As explained in the text, compare and contrast the land-carriage of goods to the water-carriage of goods.
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