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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. According to the author why, two or three centuries before, were his British ancestors mostly idle concerning industry?
2. What determines the ordinary market price of land?
3. What tends to discourage every industry in a given nation and enable foreign markets to undersell goods even in the home market?
4. How does that part of the annual production, which comes either from the ground or from the hands of the productive laborers and is destined for replacing capital, compare between rich and poor countries?
5. What does the proportion between capital and revenue regulate?
Short Essay Questions
1. What are the three ways capital is used in the natural growth of a new society?
2. Why does want of parsimony in time of peace necessitate the contracting of debt in time of war?
3. What is the principal cause for the rapid progress of the American colonies towards wealth?
4. Define the original two kinds of militia.
5. What are the two ways to impose land tax?
6. How is unproductive labor maintained by revenue?
7. What is necessary for commerce and manufacturing to flourish in a nation?
8. What are bounties?
9. Why does the colony of a civilized nation which takes possession of thinly inhabited country make rapid advances in that country?
10. How has the natural order of growth been inverted in some of the the modern states of Europe?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Explain with examples how the discovery of a passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope opened an more extensive range to foreign commerce than even that of America.
Essay Topic 2
As explained in the text, compare and contrast the general social exchange activity between men with the general social exchange activity between animals of the same species.
Essay Topic 3
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.
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