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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Visions of the Utopian Socialists.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What helped bring an end to the religiousness of the population in Europe?
(a) Foreign exploration.
(b) The Industrial Revolution.
(c) The Italian Renaissance.
(d) The death of the pope.

2. Eventually the market system evolved with its necessary factors of _________ for production. (fill in the blank)
(a) Traditions.
(b) Land, labor, and capital.
(c) Religion, custom, and authority.
(d) Land, factories, and capital.

3. It is the forces of ______ that make the market function according to Adam Smith. (fill in the blank)
(a) Wealth.
(b) Gold.
(c) Nature.
(d) Competition.

4. Adam Smith defined wealth in terms of what?
(a) Land.
(b) Produce.
(c) Gold.
(d) Goods.

5. While in prison, who did Saint-Simone claim appeared to him, telling him to become a philosopher?
(a) Charlemagne.
(b) George Washington.
(c) Adam Smith.
(d) God.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Heilbroner, economists changed the world not through __________, but through power of their ideas. (fill in the blank)

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

3. What was the title of Adam Smith's first book?

4. The followers of Saint-Simone proposed an end to _________. (fill in the blank)

5. Dr. Richard Price felt that the population had declined by how much?

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