Quiz: Tableau économique

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1. What does Quesnay say an army of a hundred thousand well-paid men amounts to? An army of ten thousand men A danger to the sovereign An army of a million men A burden that ruins the nation
2. With what does Maxim XII contrast the large-scale cultivation of rich farmers? Vineyards worked by hired day-labourers paid by the task The small-scale cultivation of poor métayers Royal estates worked by the peasants’ corvée Pasture farming by shepherds on the commons
3. Where should the tax be laid, according to Maxim V? On the farmers’ advances of cultivation On the net product of land On the wages of working men On commodities and their sale
4. At what rate is the interest on the farmers’ original advances reckoned? Two hundred and fifty per cent Five per cent Ten per cent Twenty-five per cent
5. About what proportion of the nation does the sterile class make up? About a tenth About half About a quarter About three-quarters
6. According to the author of Le Détail de la France, what happened to landed revenues between 1660 and 1699? They fell by half They stayed the same They doubled They rose by a tenth
7. How did the town of Godmanchester honour its king? By paying a year’s taxes in advance By raising a regiment of its farmers’ sons By bringing a hundred and eighty ploughs By presenting him with a hundred sacks of wheat
8. What does Maxim I call the system of counterforces in government? The best safeguard of property The basis of liberty A fatal opinion A necessary evil
9. Which statement about traders does Quesnay make? The possibility of trade gives rise to traders Traders should be granted monopolies to secure good prices Traders create the value of the produce they carry Traders are the true source of a nation’s revenue
10. What example illustrates goods with use-value but no market value? The wines and brandies sold abroad by France The goods of the peoples of Louisiana The ploughs of Godmanchester The gold and silver of the American mines
11. How does the net product of an arpent of vines compare with the best grain land? About half as great as grain land About equal, taking one year with another About ten times as great About three times as great
12. How is the labourer’s daily wage related to the price of wheat? It does not depend on the price of wheat It equals the price of a litron of wheat It is ordinarily a tenth of the price of a setier It is ordinarily a twentieth of the price of a setier
13. What “barbarous maxim” does Quesnay attack in the note on Maxim XX? That the tax must fall on the land and never on the people That the peasants must be poor, to keep them from being idle That grain should be kept dear to reward the cultivators That merchants are foreigners to the nation’s interest
14. How large are the original advances compared with the annual advances? About equal About five times as large About twice as large About ten times as large
15. What two purchases of 100 livres does Quesnay contrast? A litron of green peas and a piece of gold lace A plough and a painting A horse and a carriage A setier of wheat and a bottle of wine
16. According to Maxim III, what is the only source of wealth? Human labour The land Coined money Foreign trade
17. What did Rome fail to know, according to the Third Observation? How to trade How to govern How to raise armies How to conquer
18. How does Maxim XXIX describe pecuniary fortunes? As the just reward of industry and thrift As the foundation of public credit and loans As the true strength of the state in time of war As clandestine wealth without king or country
19. Into which three classes does Quesnay divide the nation? Nobles, clergy and the commoners of the third estate Landlords, capitalists and wage labourers Farmers, merchants and the sovereign with his officers Productive, proprietary and sterile
20. At what rate do the annual advances reproduce on Quesnay’s hypothesis? Twenty-five per cent Two hundred and fifty per cent One hundred per cent Ten per cent
21. Where does Quesnay send readers for a more detailed examination of the distribution of expenditure? The Philosophie rurale, chapter 7 The Spirit of the Laws Sully’s memoirs The Encyclopédie article “Grains”
22. What share of the revenue does Quesnay assign to the sovereign? Four-sevenths One-seventh Two-sevenths One-tenth
23. What total annual reproduction does Quesnay suppose for his great kingdom? Two milliards Six milliards three hundred and seventy millions Five milliards Ten milliards
24. Who belongs to the class of proprietors? The landowners and the wealthy merchants The landowners and the tenant farmers The sovereign and the nobility only The sovereign, the landowners and the tithe-owners
25. What happens in free foreign trade, according to the Fifth Observation? Value is exchanged for equal value The nation that imports cheap manufactures gains The nation that exports more than it imports gains Merchants always gain at both nations’ expense
26. What price of wheat does the hypothesis assume, kept up by free trade? 10 livres the setier 20 livres the setier 18 livres the setier 100 livres the setier
27. What money stock does Quesnay think more than sufficient for an agricultural nation? One equal to the tax One equal to the farmers’ original advances One equal to the proprietors’ revenue One equal to the whole annual reproduction
28. Who makes up the sterile class? All citizens working outside agriculture Beggars and vagrants Farm labourers who own no land of their own Landowners who live idly on the rents of their estates
29. Which of these is Quesnay’s formula for opulence? Abundance with dearness A great stock of money Abundance with cheapness Dearth with dearness
30. What happens to the advances of the sterile class? They are lost entirely each year They produce nothing but are returned to it each year They are converted into rent for the proprietors They grow by ten per cent a year

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