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What is Money and Barter?

Total questions: 40

Worksheet time: 19mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Political spending. Don't care about a bargain. Don't care about quality.

a)

People spending their own money on themselves

b)

People spending their money on others

c)

spending other people's money on yourself

d)

spending other people's money on other people

2.

Fully engaged mind. Care about bargains. Care about quality. Generally care about your own property - creates efficiency and market prices

a)

People spending their own money on themselves.

b)

People spending their money on others

c)

Spending other people's money on yourself.

d)

Spending other people's money on other people.

3.

Care about quality. Do not care about a bargain

a)

People spending their own money on themselves.

b)

People spending their own money on others.

c)

Spending other people's money on yourself.

d)

Spending other people's money on other people.

4.

Care about a bargain. Don't care about quality.

a)

Spending other peoples money on themselves

b)

People spending their money on others

c)

Spending other people's money on other people

d)

People spending their own money on themselves

5.

Spending your money on yourself

a)

Want the highest quality with the features you want and a bargain price

b)

the gag gift

c)

the steak lunch with desert

d)

the corrupt, perverse, and wasteful government program

6.

Spending your money on someone else

a)

the corrupt, perverse, and wasteful government spending

b)

the steak lunch with desert

c)

the gag gift

d)

highest quality, lowest price

7.

Spending other people's money on other people.

a)

the steak lunch on the bosses VISA card

b)

care about quality, care about bargains

c)

the gag gift

d)

the way politicians spend wasteful and perverse, but gets them elected

8.

spending other people money on yourself

a)

the steak lunch on the boss's VISA card

b)

the politician

c)

the gag gift

d)

care about quality, care about a bargain

9.
a)

your money on others

b)

other;s money on you

c)

other's money on others

d)

your money on you

10.
a)

other's money on you

b)

other's money on others

c)

your money on you

d)

your money on others

11.
a)

your money on yourself

b)

your money on others

c)

other's money on others

d)

other's money on yourself

12.
a)

your money on others

b)

your money on you

c)

other's money on self

d)

other's money on others

13.

Money is:

a)

a store of value

b)

a perishable commodity

14.

A horse has

a)

the divisibility problem

b)

the lack of coincidence of needs

c)

the lack of a recognizable and knowable value

15.

1,000 tons of steel ingots has

a)

the lack of a recognized and knowable value

b)

the portability problem

16.

You have a Gibson Kalamazoo guitar for which you paid $20,000. You want to trade it for a new car and the car owner has no interest in guitars.

a)

the lack of coincidence of wants

b)

the lack of a recognized and knowable value

c)

the divisibility problem

17.

Little shiny objects of various colors that this guy tells you are valuable diamonds

a)

the lack of a recognized value and lack of knowable value

b)

the lack of coincidence of needs

18.

These were used for exchanges among American Indians. Usually they were for the purchase of a diplomatic agreements among tribes and that was usually when an agreement was very much needed.

a)

Wedding ring

b)

Dowry

c)

Bride Price

d)

Wampum Belt

19.

This is usually done in African countries. A man who wants to marry must bring cattle or little stylized iron ingots (look vaguely like swords) to her parents in order to compensate them for the loss of her labor in the household.

a)

Bride Price

b)

Dowry

c)

Wampum

d)

Casino Chips

20.

Seen in many cultures. When a marriage takes place the parents of the bride provide many goods that their daughter will need for her new household.

a)

Dowry

b)

Bride Price

c)

Casino Chips

d)

Wampum Belts

21.

Started out as a simple gold band that demonstrated that the woman was no longer available. In the early 20th century women had a diamond added in some cultures and men started wearing the simple gold band.

a)

Casino Chips

b)

wedding Rings

c)

Dowry

22.

Started out as a simple gold band that demonstrated that the woman was no longer available. In the early 20th century women had a diamond added in some cultures and men started wearing the simple gold band.

a)

Wedding Rings

b)

Dowry

c)

Casino Chips

d)

Bride Price

23.

Special purpose money that can only be spent in the Casino gift shops or the gambling floor.

a)

Casino Chips

b)

dowry

c)

wampum Belts

24.

Government is paper milling money in order to pretend to meet its obligations. People who depend on the value of their money are destroyed financially - their savings destroyed. Everyone else tries to buy anything that will hold its value so that they do not have to hold money.

a)

the flight from money

b)

the valuation from money

25.

Charm, patience, energy, intelligence, interests, dispositions, talents

a)

Overtime these things are revealed about us in the economy

b)

Only 20% of the population has these

26.

(select four) We all bring these four basic things to the economy (select four)

a)

money

b)

time

c)

our subjective values

d)

eventually our experience

e)

a great singing voice

27.

Every choice to spend money on one thing ---.

a)

is the choice to not spend money on something else (or save it)

b)

is the choice to not spend time on something else (or save it)

c)

is the choice to not pay attention to something else

28.

Economists insist ---.

a)

that we take trade-offs seriously

b)

that government interference in the economy is a public benefit

29.

There are two ways to distribute scarce resources the: the political way that uses --- and the economic way that is a matter of ---.

a)

violence, voluntary exchanges of free people

b)

voluntary exchanges of free people, violence

30.

--- is real money and government central-bank currency is ---.

a)

gold, fiat money

b)

real, paper money

31.

The wealthiest nations in the world are the ones with

a)

capitalist economies

b)

socialist command and control

32.

Prices are not lever that set ---. Prices are metrics that --- to value. Antony Davies

a)

value, respond

b)

prices, formulate

33.

The exchange of currencies is called

a)

arbitrage

b)

stock market

c)

NASDAQ

34.

a)

Thomas Sowell

b)

Walter Williams

c)

Milton Friedman

d)

Hernando de Soto Polar

35.

a)

Thomas Sowell

b)

Walter Williams

c)

Milton Friedman

d)

Hernando de Soto Polar

36.

a)

Thomas Sowell

b)

Walter Williams

c)

Milton Friedman

d)

Hernando de Soto Polar

37.

a)

Thomas Sowell

b)

Walter Williams

c)

Hernando de Soto Polar

d)

Milton Friedman

38.

a)

The E stands for Equilibrium

b)

The E stands for Equilibrated

c)

The E stands for Equal

d)

The E stands for Equator

39.

The $400 represents --- and the $600 represents ---.

a)

rent control, market rent

b)

market rent, rent control

40.

The $13 represents --- and the $10 represents ---.

a)

minimum wage, market wage

b)

market wage, minimum wage