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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What took care of early man's inner conflict between himself and the group?
(a) The elders.
(b) Medicine.
(c) Psychiatry.
(d) The environment.

2. Most of the featured economists could never master _________. (fill in the blank)
(a) The social world.
(b) Their personal finances.
(c) Wall Street.
(d) Their personal lives.

3. What has played a central role in population control in the Western hemisphere?
(a) War.
(b) Disease.
(c) Governments.
(d) Birth control.

4. The new philosophy of survival with the market system brought with it what new social problem?
(a) Keeping the poor drunk.
(b) Getting the poor rich.
(c) Keeping the poor poor.
(d) Getting the rich poor.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which legislation resulted in duties on grain imports and remained in effect for thirty years?

2. By what year had crops reached near famine levels in England?

3. Who failed to recognize the wealth creating ability of labor?

4. Economists make order out of what, in Helibroner's opinion?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Owen's idea to combat poverty?

2. What did most people in ancient societies aspire to?

3. How did Charles Fourier propose to reorganize the Earth he believed was characterized by chaos and unhappiness?

4. What were the beliefs of the Saint-Simonians?

5. How was English society divided at the time of Adam Smith?

6. Why did opponents of humanitarian legislation propose Smith's idea of laissez-faire?

7. What was the premise of Malthus's An Essay on the Principle of Population as it Affects the Future Improvement of Society?

8. How did Ricardo and Malthus differ in their views?

9. Why was Ricardo against the Corn Laws?

10. What does Heilbroner say in his introduction that the worldly philosophers did "quietly and inconspicuously"?

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