Quiz 17

Question 1

Who claimed that the number of people on Earth was grown at a faster rate than that of the food supply?

Answer 1

Thomas Robert Malthus

Question 2

Are the resources of the largest industrial and commercial firms limited or unlimited?

Answer 2

limited

Question 3

What have the gloomy predictions of some economists caused economics to be, at times, called?

Answer 3

The dismal science

Question 4

What does material prosperity depend upon?

Answer 4

moral convictions and behavior

Question 5

Has the availability of most natural resources increased or decreased during the past century?

Answer 5

increased

Question 6

What is defined as “the trait of doing quality work in an efficient manner”.

Answer 6

industriousness

Question 7

In the fable “The Goose That Laid the Golden Eggs,” the goose can be compared to what sector?

Answer 7

The private sector

Question 8

What moral quality must a nation’s citizens have in order for people to develop the trust needed to develop working relationships and contracts?

Answer 8

honesty

Question 9

The basic moral of “the Goose That Laid the Golden Eggs” is what?

Answer 9

Greed consumes the source of prosperity

Question 10

What quality includes the strength to endure hard times and hold out against disappointments?

Answer 10

Fortitude