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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1, Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why are new machines more likely to be invented under division of labor?
(a) Division of labor promotes speculation and new ideas to be tried.
(b) New machines are required when labor has been divided.
(c) Men have more time to experiment with various options and potential improvements.
(d) Men are more likely to discover more efficient methods of production when their entire focus is directed towards a single step of the process.

2. Who are most likely to make improvements upon or invent new machines for manufacture?
(a) The man who is responsible for the running of the manufacturing process.
(b) Those who work with or make the machines.
(c) The man who repairs and cleans the machines.
(d) The owner of the manufacturing process.

3. What causes the difference between a philosopher and a street porter?
(a) Opportunity, talent, and birth.
(b) Natural talent and propensity.
(c) Habit, custom, and education.
(d) Birth, income, and upbringing.

4. What does the division of labor do for a manufacturer?
(a) It increases the productive powers of labor.
(b) It simplifies the productive powers of labor.
(c) It decreases the productive powers of labor.
(d) It complicates the productive powers of labor.

5. How does an individual live within a civilized society?
(a) His dependence or independence is entirely up to him.
(b) He is completely independent of other people.
(c) He needs the cooperation and assistance of many other people.
(d) He needs the cooperation and assistance of only his friends.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of business does not lend itself to many subdivisions of labor?

2. Originally, what did sailors fear?

3. How many times more goods on a broad-wheeled wagon can be carried from London to Edinburgh by water-carriage in the same amount of time?

4. What encourages every man to apply himself to an occupation and cultivate whatever talent he may possess for that particular business?

5. What three ways do we obtain from one another the greater part of those mutual good offices which we stand in need of?

(see the answer key)

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