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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. What did all of the these economists do?
(a) Never married.
(b) Influenced a king.
(c) Died penniless.
(d) Wrote a book.

2. Where was Adam Smith educated?
(a) Oxford.
(b) University of Glasgow.
(c) University of England.
(d) Harvard.

3. What year did Ricardo die?
(a) 1901.
(b) 1823.
(c) 1924.
(d) 1834.

4. Heilbroner describes a trial of a wealthy man before the church in Boston in what year?
(a) 1776.
(b) 1639.
(c) 1305.
(d) 1550.

5. The mistakes of economist are nothing short of _________. (fill in the blank)
(a) Inconsequential.
(b) Rare.
(c) Calamitous.
(d) Impossible.

Short Answer Questions

1. What year was The Wealth of Nations published?

2. One of the featured economists was never more than what?

3. Adam Smith left his university position to become a private tutor and traveled through which country?

4. In what year did Reverend Thomas Robert Malthus publish "An Essay on the Principle of Population as it Affects the Future Improvement of Society"?

5. Heilbroner believes economists wield power greater than _________. (fill in the blank)

(see the answer key)

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