Throughout this test, write your answer on the form provided. Erasure marks may cause the grading machine to mark your answer wrong. INSTRUCTIONS: The following selections relate to distinguishing arguments from nonarguments and identifying conclusions. Select the best answer for each. The field of economics is divided into two major branches: microeconomics and macroeconomics. Microeconomics

studies the behavior of individual economic agents and how they interact with each other in markets. Macroeconomics focuses on the overall level of economic activity in a society. It studies such topics as unemployment, inflation, and the rate of economic growth. Don E. Waldman, Microeconomics

A) Argument; conclusion: Microeconomics studies ... with each other in markets.

B) Argument; conclusion: The field of economics ... macroeconomics.

C) Argument; conclusion: It studies such topics ... rate of economic growth.

D) Nonargument.

E) Argument; conclusion: Macroeconomics focuses ... in a society.


D

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a. True b. False

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According to Kant the moral life is centered on

a. consequences b. feelings c. self-reliance d. duty

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A) Contrary. (Und.) B) Subcontrary. (T) C) Contradictory. (T) D) Contraposition. (F) E) Subalternation. (F)

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