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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Where does the town gain its wealth and subsistence from?
2. What is a common source of revenue for small republics?
3. What was the mint price of eight Paris ounces of gold according to the edict of January 1726?
4. How should revenue from public stock be supplemented?
5. What do hoarders fear in a rude state of society with no great mercantile or manufacturing capital?
Short Essay Questions
1. The whole annual produce of the land and labor of every country, which comes either from the ground, or from the hands of the productive laborers, is divided into what two parts?
2. Define the original two kinds of militia.
3. What is necessary for commerce and manufacturing to flourish in a nation?
4. What were the consequences of the German and Scythian nations overrunning the western provinces of the Roman empire?
5. What are the three ways capital is used in the natural growth of a new society?
6. How does the capital of the wholesale merchant support the productive labor of society?
7. Why do most men choose to employ their capitals in the improvement and cultivation of land?
8. How does the capital of a retailer and manufacturer differ?
9. What is the principal cause for the rapid progress of the American colonies towards wealth?
10. In the North American colonies, what does an artificer do who has acquired a little more stock than is necessary for carrying on his own business in supplying the neighboring country?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Explain with examples, the three reasons why laying extraordinary restraints upon particular countries with which the importation of goods of almost all kinds from balance of trade is not disadvantageous as supposed, but rather the results of national prejudice and animosity.
Essay Topic 2
There are two different views concerning whether or not a nation in wealthy. One view says that money is the measure of wealth, while the other says movable goods are the measure. Compare and contrast these two points of view.
Essay Topic 3
Define and give examples for the two different meanings of the word 'value' as applied to use and exchange.
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