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Here are some examples of test
questions over the novel.
Identify the person described
"[____], the English economist
whom Spearman ranked over even
John Maynard Keynes as the
preeminent twentieth-century
thinker, had described economics
as 'the study of mankind in the
ordinary business of life.'"
Identify the speaker
"The people you met
last night. One of
them was a fraud."
Identify the economic principle
"… Reynolds invented the ball-point
pen after World War II and had a
monopoly on its production, he sold
them for as much as eighteen dollars
each. Now there are many producers
of ball-point pens, and you pay no
more than fifty cents to get one. ….
But I'll bet you would have been
willing to pay a good deal more than
fifty cents in order to have the
convenience of a ball point instead of
a fountain pen."