An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations Test | Final Test - Hard

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 150 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations Test | Final Test - Hard

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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. In modern armies, what is of more importance in determining the fate of battles?

2. What happens to productive labor when the funds for maintaining it are increased?

3. What determines the ordinary market price of land?

4. What is not an example of unproductive labor?

5. What kind of wine is not a European commodity?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when a country forbids collecting interest on borrowed money?

2. How does a country fix the rate of interest on borrowed money so as to discourage usury?

3. 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?

4. How is unproductive labor maintained by revenue?

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

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

7. What are bounties?

8. What is the first duty of the sovereign and how is it performed?

9. How does the capital of the wholesale merchant support the productive labor of society?

10. What is the significance of where the capital of a manufacturer resides?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain with examples the commerce that take place back and forth between the inhabitants of a town and the inhabitants of the country in a civilized society. What are the benefits to both? How does one area support the other area?

Essay Topic 2

The gross revenue of a great country includes the whole annual produce of their land and labor and their net revenue, calculated after deducting the expense of maintaining their fixed and circulating capital. Explain with examples how fixed capital is maintained and how this maintenance benefits revenue.

Essay Topic 3

"The increase and riches of commercial and manufacturing towns contributed to the improvement and cultivation of the countries to which they belonged in three different ways." Explain with examples the three ways mentioned in the quote above.

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