Quiz: Tableau économique

10 questions drawn at random. Score 80% for a silver medal.

1. Who makes up the sterile class? All citizens working outside agriculture Landowners who live idly on the rents of their estates Beggars and vagrants Farm labourers who own no land of their own
2. How does Maxim XXIX describe pecuniary fortunes? 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 As the just reward of industry and thrift
3. What two purchases of 100 livres does Quesnay contrast? A plough and a painting A setier of wheat and a bottle of wine A horse and a carriage A litron of green peas and a piece of gold lace
4. What happens to the advances of the sterile class? They grow by ten per cent a year They are converted into rent for the proprietors They are lost entirely each year They produce nothing but are returned to it each year
5. What does Quesnay say an army of a hundred thousand well-paid men amounts to? An army of ten thousand men An army of a million men A danger to the sovereign A burden that ruins the nation
6. According to the author of Le Détail de la France, what happened to landed revenues between 1660 and 1699? They doubled They fell by half They rose by a tenth They stayed the same
7. At what rate do the annual advances reproduce on Quesnay’s hypothesis? Two hundred and fifty per cent One hundred per cent Ten per cent Twenty-five per cent
8. Into which three classes does Quesnay divide the nation? Productive, proprietary and sterile Farmers, merchants and the sovereign with his officers Landlords, capitalists and wage labourers Nobles, clergy and the commoners of the third estate
9. What did Rome fail to know, according to the Third Observation? How to conquer How to trade How to govern How to raise armies
10. What money stock does Quesnay think more than sufficient for an agricultural nation? One equal to the whole annual reproduction One equal to the farmers’ original advances One equal to the proprietors’ revenue One equal to the tax

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