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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Heresies of John Maynard Keynes.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did President Hoover think would be banished from the nation in the late 1920's?
(a) Prosperity.
(b) Discrimination.
(c) Investments.
(d) Poverty.

2. What is production dependent upon?
(a) Profits.
(b) Nature.
(c) Distribution.
(d) Wages.

3. The Victorian period marked the beginning of what important movement?
(a) Communism.
(b) American democracy.
(c) Socialism.
(d) European imperialism.

4. Who is to blame for the lack of glamour in the field of economics?
(a) Economists.
(b) Citizens.
(c) Students.
(d) The press.

5. Where was The Communist Manifesto written?
(a) London.
(b) Brussels.
(c) Paris.
(d) Berlin.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many years did it take Adam Smith to finish The Wealth of Nations?

2. What is the most worldly of all man's activities, according to Heilbroner?

3. What was detested by factory workers in the late 1700's?

4. According to Engels and Marx, what does "dialectical" mean?

5. Marx's radicalism was ____________ rather than political. (fill in the blank)

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