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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. How important is it that the merchant whose capital exports the surplus produce of any society be a native or a foreigner?
2. What does a man expect when he employs his stock as capital?
3. What happens to productive labor when the funds for maintaining it are increased?
4. How do most men choose to employ their capitals?
5. How should revenue from public stock be supplemented?
Short Essay Questions
1. How is the interest rate for borrowed money determined?
2. According to the author, why do men prefer slave labor rather than the services of freemen?
3. What is the significance of where the capital of a manufacturer resides?
4. Why would the proprietor of a colonist's land not dispute over wages, and indeed pay high wages?
5. How does the capital of the wholesale merchant support the productive labor of society?
6. What is necessary for commerce and manufacturing to flourish in a nation?
7. What are the three ways capital is used in the natural growth of a new society?
8. 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?
9. How does the capital of a retailer and manufacturer differ?
10. Why does want of parsimony in time of peace necessitate the contracting of debt in time of war?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
As explained in the text, compare and contrast the land-carriage of goods to the water-carriage of goods.
Essay Topic 2
There are two different views concerning whether or not a nation in wealthy. One view says that money is the measure of wealth, while the other says movable goods are the measure. Compare and contrast these two points of view.
Essay Topic 3
Explain with examples, the three reasons why laying extraordinary restraints upon particular countries with which the importation of goods of almost all kinds from balance of trade is not disadvantageous as supposed, but rather the results of national prejudice and animosity.
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