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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Gloomy Presentiments of Parson Malthus and David Ricardo.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Heilbroner, economists changed the world not through __________, but through power of their ideas. (fill in the blank)
(a) Force.
(b) Mischief.
(c) Wealth.
(d) Laughter.

2. What are economists considered by the rules of schoolboy history books?
(a) Gods.
(b) Nonentities.
(c) Princes.
(d) Miracle workers.

3. Malthus continued to work on his theory of population and the food supply and assumed that humans could double their number every _________. (fill in the blank)
(a) Twenty-five years.
(b) Twenty years.
(c) Thirty-five years.
(d) Fifty Years.

4. The fact that man is _________ makes survival difficult. (fill in the blank)
(a) Antisocial.
(b) Clever.
(c) A slow learner.
(d) Self-centered.

5. Heilbroner begins the book by saying it is limited to a small number of men who did more for history with _________ than famous men did. (fill in the blank)
(a) War.
(b) Wealth.
(c) Theories.
(d) Power.

Short Answer Questions

1. Ricardo was the son of a Jewish merchant banker from _________. (fill in the blank)

2. What did Heilbroner say was one of the factors bringing about the economic changes to a market system?

3. Adam Smith was a lecturer in what area?

4. _________ is concerned with finding some reason for the cosmos. (fill in the blank)

5. What did the market system become known as?

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