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Chapter 06 - A Firm's Production Decisions and Costs in the Short Run

Chapter 06
A Firm's Production Decisions and Costs in the Short Run

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following is not a type of business organization that firms can form?
A. Sole proprietor.
B. Unlimited partnership.
C. Non-profit organization.
D. Crown corporation.

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Topic: 06-01 The Role of the Firm

2. What is depreciation?
A. Costs that are actually paid out in money.
B. A type of explicit cost.
C. Revenue over and above all costs, including normal profits.
D. The annual cost of any asset that is expected to be in use for more than a year.

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3. What is the term for the annual cost of wear of any asset that is expected to be in use for
more than a year?
A. Diminishing returns.
B. Marginal cost.
C. Depreciation.
D. Sunk cost.
E. Explicit cost.

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4. What are costs that are actually paid out in money?


A. Implicit costs.
B. Explicit costs.
C. Sunk costs.
D. Short-run costs.

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5. What is an explicit cost?


A. A cost that is actually paid out in money.
B. A cost that is not actually paid out in money.
C. A historical cost of buying equipment for production that has no current resale value.
D. The annual cost of any asset that is expected to be in use for more than a year.

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6. What is the term for the costs that come from the use of the owner's own resources and
therefore are not actually paid out in money?
A. Sunk costs.
B. Explicit costs.
C. Implicit costs.
D. Depreciation.

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7. What are implicit costs?


A. Costs that are actually paid out in money.
B. The annual cost of wear and tear on assets.
C. The costs of buying machinery and equipment.
D. Costs that are not actually paid out in money.
E. Costs that reflect diminishing returns.

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Below are some financial data for the Do Drop In convenience store.

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Profit and Loss Statement


Week Ending March 24, 2014
Income:
Cash Sales $7,260
Expenses:
Merchandise $3,160
Rent 750
Insurance 240
Licences etc 90
Tax Remittance 1,860
Advertising 200
Depreciation 600
$6,900

The owners have put $40,000 into the business and they worked a total of 80 hours during the
week. Savings accounts are currently paying 5.2% interest and the going wage rate is $8 per
hour.

8. Refer to the information above to answer this question. According to an accountant, what is
the week's profit for the Do Drop In?
A. -$230.
B. $230.
C. $360.
D. $450.
E. $960.

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9. Refer to the information above to answer this question. What are the week's total explicit
costs for the Do Drop In?
A. $3,160.
B. $4,440.
C. $6,300.
D. $6,900.
E. $7,580.

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10. Refer to the information above to answer this question. What are the week's total implicit
costs for the Do Drop In?
A. $40.
B. $680.
C. $6,300.
D. $6,900.
E. $7,580.

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11. Refer to the information above to answer this question. What is the week's economic
profit for the Do Drop In?
A. -$320.
B. -$40.
C. $280.
D. $320.
E. $1,050.

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12. What is the term for the historical costs of buying plant, machinery and equipment that
have no current resale value?
A. Sunk cost.
B. Depreciation.
C. Short run cost.
D. Long run cost.
E. Implicit cost.

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13. What are sunk costs?


A. Costs that are implicit and are not actually paid out in money.
B. The historical costs of buying machinery and equipment which have no current resale
value.
C. The annual cost of wear and tear on machinery and equipment.
D. Costs that are actually paid out in money.

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14. Which of the following statements is true concerning sunk costs?


A. They are the total costs of any asset that has been purchased in the past.
B. They are the total costs of any asset, less depreciation, that has been purchased in the past.
C. It is another term for depreciation.
D. They have zero opportunity costs.

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15. What are normal profits?


A. The minimum profit that must be earned to keep the entrepreneur in that type of business.
B. The explicit cost of doing business.
C. Profits made by the typical firm in an industry.
D. Total revenue over and above all costs.

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16. What do economists consider the true cost of doing business?


A. Explicit costs.
B. Explicit costs less implicit costs.
C. Implicit costs.
D. Explicit costs plus implicit costs.
E. Explicit costs plus economic profits.

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17. What is the term for the surplus that is earned over and above all explicit and implicit
costs of doing business?
A. Net profits.
B. Marginal profits.
C. Economic profits.
D. Normal profits.

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18. Which of the following statements is true concerning economic profits?


A. They are always positive.
B. They are equal to profits as measured by an accountant.
C. They are always zero.
D. They are revenue over and above all costs including implicit costs.

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19. Which of the following statements is correct regarding normal profits?


A. They are calculated by subtracting explicit costs from total revenue.
B. Earning normal profits is considered a necessary part of doing business.
C. They would always be smaller than economic profits.
D. They are what is left over after economic profits are covered.

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20. What is the term for the period of time in which at least one input in the production
process is fixed?
A. Fixed run.
B. Variable run.
C. Long run.
D. Short run.

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21. What is meant by the term short run?


A. A production period in which at least one input is variable.
B. A production period in which at least one input is fixed.
C. Any period shorter than one year.
D. The time it takes for a capital asset to wear out.

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22. What is the term for the increase in total product resulting from the addition of one more
unit of input?
A. Total product.
B. Marginal product.
C. Normal product.
D. Average product.
E. Variable product.

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23. What term refers to the total output divided by the quantity of inputs used to produce that
total?
A. Average product.
B. Short run profits.
C. Law of diminishing returns.
D. Marginal product.

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24. Which of the following statements about the marginal product of labour is correct?
A. It may either rise or fall as more labour is used.
B. It always rises as more labour is used.
C. It always falls as more labour is used.
D. There is no relationship between marginal product and labour.

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25. Which of the following statements is true about the marginal product of labour?
A. It is total output divided by the quantity of labour inputs used.
B. It is the increase in total output resulting from the use of one more unit of labour.
C. It is the increase in total output divided by the quantity of labour inputs used.
D. It is total output multiplied by the quantity of labour inputs used.

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26. Which of the following statements is true about the advantages gained through the
division of labour?
A. It causes the marginal product of labour to increase, but it has no effect on the average
product of labour.
B. It was first thought of by David Ricardo in his example of a hat factory.
C. It is an idea that has little application in the real world.
D. Its application results in both the marginal and average product of labour increasing.

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27. What is significant about the level of output at which marginal product begins to decline?
A. It is the point of maximum average product.
B. It is the point of minimum average cost.
C. It is the point at which the division of labour begins.
D. It is the point at which diminishing returns begins.

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28. What will happen to total product after the point of diminishing returns has been reached?
A. It will continue to rise until marginal product becomes zero.
B. It will continue to rise until marginal product begins to decline.
C. It will begin to fall.
D. It will start to rise for the first time.

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29. What is the significance of the maximum point on the total product curve?
A. It is the point where the increase in output begins to slow down.
B. It is the point where diminishing returns sets in.
C. It is the point of maximum marginal product.
D. It is the point where marginal product is zero.

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30. If marginal product is declining, which of the following statements is correct?


A. Average product must be falling.
B. Average product could be rising or falling.
C. Marginal cost must be falling.
D. Average variable cost must be rising.
E. Average variable cost must be falling.

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31. What do economists mean by the term "the most productive output"?
A. The output where total product is at a maximum.
B. The output where average product is at a maximum.
C. The output where marginal product is at a maximum.
D. The output where marginal cost is at a minimum.
E. The output where average cost is at a minimum.

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32. What is the term for dividing up the production process into specialized tasks?
A. Units of labour.
B. Separation of labour.
C. Division of labour.
D. Distinction of labour.

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33. What term is used to describe the result of adding more and more units of a variable
resource to a production process where there is at least one fixed variable and the resulting
increase in output begins to decrease?
A. Depreciation.
B. The law of increasing productivity.
C. The law of marginal productivity.
D. The law of diminishing returns.

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34. What is the law of diminishing returns?


A. As more of a fixed input is added to a variable input in the production process the resulting
increase in output will, at some point, accelerate.
B. As more of a variable input is added to a fixed input in the production process the resulting
increase in output will, at some point, accelerate.
C. As more of a variable input is added to a fixed input in the production process the resulting
increase in output will, at some point, diminish.
D. As more of a variable input is added to a fixed input in the production process the resulting
increase in output will, at some point, become negative.

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Below are some production data for Quite Simple Products Ltd.

Units of Labour Total Product


1 30
2 70
3 120
4 160
5 190
6 210
7 216
8 216

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35. Refer to the information above to answer this question. What is the marginal product of
the fifth unit of labour?
A. 5.
B. 20.
C. 30.
D. 38.
E. 190.

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36. Refer to the information above to answer this question. What is the average product of the
sixth unit of labour?
A. 6.
B. 20.
C. 31.
D. 35.
E. 210.

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37. Refer to the previous question to answer this question. How many units of labour are
being used when diminishing returns first become evident?
A. 1.
B. 2.
C. 3.
D. 4.
E. Cannot be determined.

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38. Refer to the information above to answer this question. How many units of labour are
being used when the firm is at its most productive point?
A. 1.
B. 2.
C. 4.
D. 5.
E. 7.

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39. Refer to the information above to answer this question. How many units of labour are
being used when the firm's marginal cost is at a minimum?
A. 1.
B. 2.
C. 3.
D. 5.
E. 8.

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40. Refer to the information above to answer this question. What is the value of average
product when marginal product is zero?
A. 0.
B. 7.
C. 30.9.
D. 27.
E. Cannot be determined.

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The graph below illustrates the average and marginal product of labour for Get Smart
Enterprises.

41. Refer to the graph above to answer this question. How many units of labour does the firm
need to employ to achieve an output that minimizes marginal cost?
A. 1.
B. 3.
C. 6.
D. 9.
E. 12.

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42. Refer to the graph above to answer this question. How many units of labour does the firm
need to employ to achieve an output that minimizes average variable cost?
A. 1.
B. 3.
C. 6.
D. 9.
E. 12.

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43. Refer to the graph above to answer this question. How many units of labour does the firm
need to employ to achieve maximum output?
A. 1.
B. 3.
C. 6.
D. 9.
E. 12.

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44. Refer to the graph above to answer this question. How many units of labour does the firm
need to employ to achieve economic capacity?
A. 3.
B. 6.
C. 9.
D. 12.
E. Cannot be determined.

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45. Refer to the graph above to answer this question. At what output does diminishing returns
begin?
A. 1.
B. 6.
C. 8.
D. 11.

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46. Refer to the graph above to answer this question. What is the most productive output?
A. 1.
B. 6.
C. 8.
D. 11.

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47. Refer to the graph above to answer this question. What is true at maximum total output?
A. It is the most productive output.
B. It is where diminishing returns begin.
C. It is where marginal product is at a maximum.
D. It is where marginal product is zero.

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48. What is the sum of the marginal cost of all of the units produced?
A. Total cost.
B. Average cost.
C. Total variable cost.
D. Total variable cost less total fixed cost.
E. Total variable cost plus fixed cost.

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49. What is the term for the total of all costs that vary with the level of output?
A. Average variable cost.
B. Marginal cost.
C. Variable cost.
D. Total variable cost.
E. Total cost.

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50. What is the term for the increase in total variable costs which results from the production
of one more unit of output?
A. Marginal cost.
B. Total variable cost.
C. Average variable cost.
D. Total cost.

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51. What is average variable cost?


A. Total fixed cost divided by total output.
B. Total variable cost divided by total marginal costs.
C. Total output divided by total variable cost.
D. Total variable cost divided by total output.

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52. What is total variable cost?


A. Those costs that do not vary with the level of output.
B. The total of all costs that vary with the level of output.
C. The sum of both total fixed cost and marginal cost.
D. The increase in total variable cost as a result of producing one more unit of output.

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The data in the table is for a firm in which labour is the only variable cost and each unit of
labour costs the same regardless of how many units are bought.

Units of TVC MC AVC


Labour TP MP AP $ $ $
0 0 / / 0 / /
1 8 8 100
2 20
3 45 25
4 30 18.8
5 20
6 120 20
7 10 18.6
8 135
9 15
10 130

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53. Refer to the information above to answer this question. What are the missing numbers for
TP in the second column?
A. 12, 28, 75, 140 and 150.
B. 12, 28, 70, 130 and 150.
C. 12, 60, 90, 180 and 130.
D. 8, 75, 100, 130 and 135.
E. 8, 60, 100, 135 and 150.

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54. Refer to the information above to answer this question. What are the missing numbers for
MP in the third column?
A. 12, 20, 10, 5 and 0.
B. 12, 25, 5, 0 and -5.
C. 28, 50, 28.6, 42.6 and 58.6.
D. 12, 50, 28.6, 43.6 and 58.6.
E. 28, 25, 10, 5, and 0.

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55. Refer to the information above to answer this question. What are the missing numbers for
AP in the fourth column?
A. 20, 25, 20, 17.5 and -5.
B. 20, 15, 20, 17.5 and -5.
C. 10, 15, 20, 16.9 and 13.
D. 10, 25, 25, 16.9 and 0.
E. 10, 20, 20, 17.5 and -5.

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56. Refer to the information above to answer this question. What is the value of TVC if 7
units of labour are used?
A. $70.
B. $100.
C. $130.2.
D. $700.
E. $910.

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57. Refer to the information above to answer this question. What is the value of MC if 5 units
of labour are used?
A. $1.50.
B. $2.
C. $4.
D. $5.
E. $20.

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58. Refer to the information above to answer this question. What is the value of AVC if 3
units of labour are used?
A. $1.50.
B. $5.
C. $6.67.
D. $10.
E. $18.60.

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59. Refer to the information above to answer this question. As one reads down the TVC
column, what is the pattern in the numbers?
A. They fall until the fifth unit of labour used and then rise.
B. They rise until the fifth unit of labour used and then fall.
C. They continuously rise.
D. They continuously fall.
E. There is no clear pattern.

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60. Refer to the information above to answer this question. As one reads down the MC
column, what is the pattern in the numbers?
A. They fall until the fourth unit of labour used and then rise.
B. They fall until the fifth unit of labour used and then rise.
C. They rise until the fourth unit of labour used and then fall.
D. They rise until the fifth unit of labour used and then fall.
E. They continually rise.

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61. Refer to the information above to answer this question. As one reads down the AVC
column, what is the pattern in the numbers?
A. They continuously rise.
B. They continuously fall.
C. They fall until the fifth unit of labour used and then remain unchanged.
D. They rise until the fifth unit of labour used and then remain unchanged.
E. They fall until the fifth unit of labour used and then rise with the seventh unit of labour
used.

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Output $ TC
0 150
10 210
20 260
30 300
40 350
50 410
60 490
70 610
80 790

62. Refer to the information above to answer this question. What is the total variable cost of
producing 50 units of output?
A. $150.
B. $260.
C. $410.
D. Cannot be determined.

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63. Refer to the information above to answer this question. What is average variable cost
when output is 50?
A. $5.
B. $5.20.
C. $6.
D. $8.20.

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64. Refer to the information above to answer this question. What is marginal cost when output
is 50?
A. $4.
B. $5.
C. $6.
D. $60.

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65. Refer to the information above to answer this question. What is average fixed cost when
output is 50?
A. Zero.
B. $3.
C. $20.
D. $150.
E. Cannot be determined.

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66. Refer to the information above to answer this question. What is the value of marginal cost
at economic capacity?
A. $5.
B. $6.
C. $8.
D. $12.
E. $80.

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67. Refer to the information above to answer this question. What is the most productive level
of output?
A. 30.
B. 40.
C. 50.
D. 60.
E. Cannot be determined.

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68. Refer to the information above to answer this question. What is the value of average
variable cost at the most productive output?
A. $6.
B. $5.
C. $8.
D. $8.17.
E. Cannot be determined.

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69. Refer to the information above to answer this question. What is the value of average total
cost at the point of diminishing returns?
A. $5.
B. $8.17.
C. $8.71.
D. $10.
E. Cannot be determined.

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70. Refer to the information above to answer this question. What is the value of marginal cost
when MP is maximized?
A. $4.
B. $5.
C. $50.
D. $80.
E. $120.

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71. Refer to the graph above to answer this question. Which of the following statements is
correct?
A. Curve 1 illustrates marginal product while curve 3 illustrates average cost.
B. Curve 1 illustrates average cost while curve 3 illustrates marginal product.
C. Curve 2 illustrates marginal cost while curve 3 illustrates marginal product.
D. Curve 2 illustrates marginal product while curve 3 illustrates marginal cost.
E. Curves 1 and 2 are cost curves while curves 3 and 4 are product curves.

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72. Refer to the graph above to answer this question. Which of the following statements is
correct?
A. Curve 1 illustrates average product while curve 3 illustrates average variable cost.
B. Curve 1 illustrates average variable cost while curve 3 illustrates marginal product.
C. Curve 1 illustrates average product while curve 4 illustrates average variable cost.
D. Curve 2 illustrates marginal product while curve 3 illustrates average variable cost.
E. Curves 1 and 2 are cost curves while curves 3 and 4 are product curves.

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73. Refer to the graph above to answer this question. Which of the following statements is
correct?
A. Curve 1 illustrates marginal product while curve 3 illustrates average variable cost.
B. Curve 1 illustrates average variable cost while curve 3 illustrates marginal product.
C. Curve 1 illustrates average product while curve 3 illustrates average variable cost.
D. Curve 2 illustrates marginal product while curve 3 illustrates average variable cost.
E. Diminishing returns are best illustrated by curves 2 and 3.

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74. Refer to the graph above to answer this question. Which of the following statements is
correct?
A. Curve 1 illustrates marginal product while curve 3 illustrates average variable cost.
B. Curve 1 illustrates average variable cost while curve 3 illustrates marginal product.
C. Curve 1 illustrates average product while curve 3 illustrates average variable cost.
D. Curve 2 illustrates marginal product while curve 3 illustrates average variable cost.
E. The most productive output is best illustrated by curves 1 and 4.

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75. Refer to the graph above to answer this question. Which of the following statements is
correct?
A. Marginal product and marginal cost reach their minimum levels at the same output.
B. Average product and average cost reach their maximum levels at the same output.
C. AVC cuts MC at the latter's minimum point.
D. AP is at a maximum when ATC is at a minimum.
E. AP is at a maximum when AVC is at a minimum.

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76. What causes marginal cost to increase?


A. The advantages of the division of labour.
B. The fact that ATC increases.
C. Raising marginal product.
D. The law of diminishing returns.

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77. Why is the AVC curve saucer-shaped?


A. Because the MC curve is both below and above the AVC curve.
B. Because the ATC curve is both below and above the AVC curve.
C. Because the AFC curve is horizontal.
D. Because the TVC curve is also saucer-shaped.

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"Fill in the blank" in the table below and then answering the question below.

Quality AFC TVC ATC MC TC


0 xxx ____ xxx Xxx ____
1 ____ ____ 20 ____ ____
2 ____ ____ ____ ____ ____
3 ____ ____ ____ 11 39
4 ____ 42 ____ ____ ____
5 2 ____ 14 ____ ____

78. Refer to the information above to answer this question. What is the value of total fixed
cost?
A. $2.
B. $6.
C. $10.
D. $20.
E. $70.

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79. Refer to the information above to answer this question. What is average total cost when
output is 2?
A. $8.
B. $11.
C. $12.
D. $14.
E. $28.

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80. Refer to the information above to answer this question. What is total variable cost when
output is 3?
A. Zero.
B. $3.
C. $18.
D. $29.
E. $39.

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81. Refer to the information above to answer this question. What is marginal cost when output
is 4?
A. $6.
B. $9.
C. $13.
D. $18.
E. $22.

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82. Refer to the information above to answer this question. At what output does MC = ATC?
A. 1.
B. 2.
C. 3.
D. 4.
E. 5.

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83. Refer to the information above to answer this question. At what output is average product
at a maximum?
A. 1.
B. 2.
C. 3.
D. 4.
E. Cannot be determined.

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84. Which of the following statements regarding total fixed costs is correct?
A. When total fixed costs are graphed, the curve will rise from the origin at a constant rate.
B. When total fixed costs are graphed, the curve will be horizontal.
C. Total fixed costs equal total variable cost less total average costs.
D. Total fixed costs rise slowly at first, but then more quickly as output increases.
E. Total fixed costs equal total marginal costs plus total variable costs.

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85. Which of the following statements regarding average fixed costs is correct?
A. They are constant since fixed costs are fixed.
B. They are equal to average variable cost less average total cost.
C. When graphed, they are a horizontal line.
D. When graphed, they are a straight line which comes out of the origin.
E. They fall continuously as output increases.

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86. Which of the following is a fixed cost?


A. Electricity to power the production process.
B. Insurance on the factory's physical plant.
C. Raw materials.
D. Wages paid to labour.

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87. Which of the following is a variable cost?


A. The leasehold cost of a building.
B. Insurance on the factory's physical plant.
C. Raw materials.
D. The cost of a marketing research report.

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88. Refer to the graph above to answer this question. Which curve illustrates marginal cost?
A. 1.
B. 2.
C. 3.
D. 4.

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89. Refer to the graph above to answer this question. Which curve illustrates average variable
cost?
A. 1.
B. 2.
C. 3.
D. 4.

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90. Refer to the graph above to answer this question. Which curve illustrates average total
cost?
A. 1.
B. 2.
C. 3.
D. 4.

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91. Refer to the graph above to answer this question. Which curve illustrates average fixed
cost?
A. 1.
B. 2.
C. 3.
D. 4.

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92. Refer to the graph above to answer this question. At what output does diminishing returns
begin?
A. 40.
B. 70.
C. 80.
D. 90.

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93. Refer to the graph above to answer this question. What output is the most productive
output?
A. 40.
B. 70.
C. 80.
D. 90.

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94. Refer to the graph above to answer this question. At what output is marginal product at the
maximum point?
A. 40.
B. 70.
C. 80.
D. 90.

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95. Refer to the graph above to answer this question. What output is economic capacity?
A. 40.
B. 70.
C. 80.
D. 90.

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96. In a diagram, how is the effect of an increase in the price of a variable input illustrated?
A. The MC, AVC, ATC and AFC curves would shift down.
B. The MC, AVC, ATC and AFC curves would shift up.
C. Only the MC, AVC, and ATC curves would shift down.
D. Only the MC, AVC, and ATC curves would shift up.

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Output TC ($)
0 200
5 250
15 300
20 350
23 400
25 450

97. Refer to the information above to answer this question. If total variable cost decreases by
20% at all levels of output, what is TVC when output is 15?
A. $40.
B. $80.
C. $120.
D. $160.

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98. Refer to the information above to answer this question. If total variable cost decreases by
20% at all levels of output, what is ATC when output is 20?
A. $10
B. $12
C. $16
D. $30
E. $80

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99. Refer to the information above to answer this question. If total variable cost decreases by
20% at all levels of output, what is AVC when output is 20?
A. $4
B. $6
C. $6.95
D. $16
E. $20

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100. Which of the following statements would be true about a firm which has excess
capacity?
A. Its average total cost would be at a minimum.
B. Its average total cost would not be at a minimum.
C. Its average total cost may or may not be at a minimum but the firm would not be at
economic capacity.
D. It would not be at capacity output, but its average total cost would be at a minimum.
E. It would need to reduce output to achieve minimum average total cost.

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101. What term describes output where average total cost is at a minimum?
A. Excess capacity.
B. Economic capacity.
C. Economic profits.
D. Marginal capacity.

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102. What is the term for the situation where a firm's output is less than economic capacity?
A. Capacity output.
B. Total capacity.
C. Explicit capacity.
D. Excess capacity.

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destinazione — Forse tempio — Passaggio
per gli avvocati — Di un passo dell’Odissea
d’Omero — Eumachia sacerdotessa
fabbrica il Calcidico in Pompei —
Descrizione — Cripta e statua della
fondatrice — Le prigioni di Pompei —
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Comico. — Passione degli antichi pel
teatro — Cause — Istrioni — Teatro
Comico od Odeum di Pompei —
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scalae, vomitoria — Posti assegnati alle
varie classi — Orchestra — Podii o tribune
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o vasi sonori — Tessere d’ingresso al
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luogo destinato alla plebe — Se gli
spettacoli fossero sempre gratuiti —
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pietra — Il teatro Comico latino — Origini
— Sature e Atellane — Arlecchino e
Pulcinella — Rintone, Andronico ed Ennio
— Plauto e Terenzio — Giudizio
contemporaneo dei poeti comici — Diversi
generi di commedia: togatae, palliatae,
trabeatae, tunicatae, tabernariae — Le
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di storia — Se in Pompei si recitassero
commedie greche — Mimi e Mimiambi —
Le maschere, origine e scopo —
Introduzione in Roma — Pregiudizi contro
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tragico. — Origini del teatro tragico —
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tragedia e ragioni del nome — Caratteri —
Epigene, Eschilo e Cherillo — Della
maschera tragica — L’attor tragico Polo —
Venticinque specie di maschere —
Maschere trovate in Pompei — Palla o
Syrma — Coturno — Istrioni —
Accompagnamento musicale — Le tibie e i
tibicini — Melpomene, musa della Tragedia
— Il teatro tragico in Pompei — L’architetto
Martorio Primo — Invenzione del velario —
Biasimata in Roma — Ricchissimi velarii di
Cesare e di Nerone — Sparsiones o
pioggie artificiali in teatro —
Adacquamento delle vie — Le lacernæ, o
mantelli da teatro — Descrizione del Teatro
Tragico — Gli Oleonj — Thimele —
Aulaeum — La Porta regia e le porte
hospitalia della scena — Tragici latini:
Andronico, Pacuvio, Accio, Nevio, Cassio
Severo, Varo, Turanno Graccula, Asinio
Pollione — Ovidio tragico — Verio, Lucio
Anneo Seneca, Mecenate — Perchè Roma
non abbia avuto tragedie — Tragedie
greche in Pompei — Tessera teatrale —
Attori e Attrici — Batillo, Pilade, Esopo e
Roseio — Dionisia — Stipendj esorbitanti
— Un manicaretto di perle — Applausi e
fischi — La claque, la clique e la
Consorteria — Il suggeritore — Se l’Odeo
di Pompei fosse attinenza del Gran Teatro

CAPITOLO XIV. — I Teatri — L’Anfiteatro. 103


— Introduzione in Italia dei giuochi circensi
— Giuochi trojani — Panem et circenses
— Un circo romano — Origine romana
degli Anfiteatri — Cajo Curione fabbrica il
primo in legno — Altro di Giulio Cesare —
Statilio Tauro erige il primo di pietra — Il
Colosseo — Data dell’Anfiteatro
pompejano — Architettura sua — I Pansa
— Criptoportico — Arena — Eco — Le
iscrizioni del Podio — Prima Cavea — I
locarii — Seconda Cavea — Somma
Cavea — Cattedre femminili — I Velarii —
Porta Libitinense — Lo Spoliario — I
cataboli — Il triclinio e il banchetto libero —
Corse di cocchi e di cavalli — Giuochi
olimpici in Grecia — Quando introdotti in
Roma — Le fazioni degli Auriganti —
Giuochi gladiatorj — Ludo Gladiatorio in
Pompei — Ludi gladiatorj in Roma —
Origine dei Gladiatori — Impiegati nei
funerali — Estesi a divertimento — I
Gladiatori al Lago Fucino — Gladiatori
forzati — Gladiatori volontarj —
Giuramento de’ gladiatori auctorati —
Lorarii — Classi gladiatorie: secutores,
retiarii, myrmillones, thraces, samnites,
hoplomachi, essedarii, andabati,
dimachæri, laquearii, supposititii,
pegmares, meridiani — Gladiatori Cavalieri
e Senatori, nani e pigmei, donne e matrone
— Il Gladiatore di Ravenna di Halm — Il
colpo e il diritto di grazia — Deludia — Il
Gladiatore morente di Ctesilao e Byron —
Lo Spoliario e la Porta Libitinense — Premj
ai Gladiatori — Le ambubaje — Le Ludie
— I giuochi Floreali e Catone —
Naumachie — Le Venationes o caccie —
Di quante sorta fossero — Caccia data da
Pompeo — Caccie di leoni ed elefanti —
Proteste degli elefanti contro la mancata
fede — Caccia data da Giulio Cesare —
Un elefante funambolo — L’Aquila e il
fanciullo — I Bestiarii e le donne bestiariæ
— La legge Petronia — Il supplizio di
Laureolo — Prostituzione negli anfiteatri —
Meretrici appaltatrici di spettacoli — Il
Cristianesimo abolisce i ludi gladiatorj —
Telemaco monaco — Missilia e Sparsiones

CAPITOLO XV. — Le Terme. — Etimologia


— Thermae, Balineae, Balineum, Lavatrina
— Uso antico de’ Bagni — Ragioni —
Abuso — Bagni pensili — Balineae più
famose — Ricchezze profuse ne’ bagni
publici — Estensione delle terme — Edificj
contenuti in esse — Terme estive e jemali
— Aperte anche di notte — Terme
principali — Opere d’arte rinvenute in esse
— Terme di Caracalla — Ninfei — Serbatoi
e Acquedotti — Agrippa edile — Inservienti
alle acque — Publici e privati — Terme in
Pompei — Terme di M. Crasso Frugio —
Terme publiche e private — Bagni rustici —
Terme Stabiane — Palestra e Ginnasio —
Ginnasio in Pompei — Bagno degli uomini
— Destrictarium — L’imperatore Adriano
nel bagno de’ poveri — Bagni delle donne
— Balineum di M. Arrio Diomede —
Fontane publiche e private — Provenienza
delle acque — Il Sarno e altre acque —
Distribuzione per la città — Acquedotti 183

CAPITOLO XVI. — Le Scuole. — Etimologia 231


— Scuola di Verna in Pompei — Scuola di
Valentino — Orbilio e la ferula — Storia de’
primordj della coltura in Italia — Numa e
Pitagora — Etruria, Magna Grecia e Grecia
— Ennio e Andronico — Gioventù romana
in Grecia — Orazio e Bruto — Secolo d’oro
— Letteratura — Giurisprudenza —
Matematiche — Storia naturale —
Economia rurale — Geografia — Filosofia
romana — Non è vero che fosse ucciditrice
di libertà — Biblioteche — Cesare incarica
Varrone di una biblioteca publica — Modo
di scrivere, volumi, profumazione delle
carte — Medicina empirica — Medici e
chirurghi — La Casa del Chirurgo in
Pompei — Stromenti di chirurgia rinvenuti
in essa — Prodotti chimici —
Pharmacopolae, Seplasarii, Sagae —
Fabbrica di prodotti chimici in Pompei —
Bottega di Seplasarius — Scuole private

CAPITOLO XVII. — Le Tabernæ. — Istinti 271


dei Romani — Soldati per forza —
Agricoltori — Poca importanza del
commercio coll’estero — Commercio
marittimo di Pompei — Commercio
marittimo di Roma — Ignoranza della
nautica — Commercio d’importazione —
Modo di bilancio — Ragioni di decadimento
della grandezza romana — Industria — Da
chi esercitata — Mensarii ed Argentarii —
Usura — Artigiani distinti in categorie —
Commercio al minuto — Commercio delle
botteghe — Commercio della strada —
Fori nundinari o venali — Il Portorium o
tassa delle derrate portate al mercato — Le
tabernae e loro costruzione — Institores —
Mostre o insegne — Popinae, thermopolia,
cauponae, anopolia — Mercanti ambulanti
— Cerretani — Grande e piccolo
Commercio in Pompei — Foro nundinario
di Pompei — Tabernae — Le insegne delle
botteghe — Alberghi di Albino, di Giulio
Polibio e Agato Vajo, dell’Elefante o di
Sittio e della Via delle Tombe —
Thermopolia — Pistrini, Pistores, Siliginari
— Plauto, Terenzio, Cleante e Pittaco Re,
mugnai — Le mole di Pompei — Pistrini
diversi — Paquio Proculo, fornajo,
duumviro di giustizia — Ritratto di lui e di
sua moglie — Venditorio d’olio — Ganeum
— Lattivendolo — Fruttajuolo — Macellai
— Myropolium, profumi e profumieri —
Tonstrina, o barbieria — Sarti —
Magazzeno di tele e di stofe — Lavanderie
— La Ninfa Eco — Il Conciapelli —
Calzoleria e Selleria — Tintori — Arte
Fullonica — Fulloniche di Pompei —
Fabbriche di Sapone — Orefici — Fabbri e
falegnami — Praefectus fabrorum — Vasaj
e vetrai — Vasi vinarj — Salve Lucru

CAPITOLO XVIII. — Belle Arti. — Opere 345


sulle Arti in Pompei — Contraffazioni —
Aneddoto — Primordj delle Arti in Italia —
Architettura etrusca — Architetti romani —
Scrittori — Templi — Architettura
pompeiana — Angustia delle case —
Monumenti grandiosi in Roma — Archi —
Magnificenza nelle architetture private —
Prezzo delle case di Cicerone e di Clodio
— Discipline edilizie — Pittura — Pittura
architettonica — Taberna o venditorio di
colori in Pompei — Discredito delle arti in
Roma — Pittura parietaria — A fresco —
All’acquarello — All’encausto —
Encaustica — Dipinti su tavole, su tela e
sul marmo — Pittori romani — Arellio —
Accio Prisco — Figure isolate — Ritratti —
Pittura di genere: Origine — Dipinti
bottegai — Pittura di fiori — Scultura —
Prima e seconda maniera di statuaria in
Etruria — Maniera greca — Prima scultura
romana — Esposizione d’oggetti d’arte —
Colonne — Statue, tripedaneae, sigillae —
Immagine de’ maggiori — Artisti greci in
Roma — Cajo Verre — Sue rapine — La
Glìttica — La scultura al tempo dell’Impero
— In Ercolano e Pompei — Opere
principali — I Busti — Gemme pompejane
— Del Musaico — Sua origine e progresso
— Pavimentum barbaricum, tesselatum,
vermiculatum — Opus signinum —
Musivum opus — Asarola — Introduzione
del mosaico in Roma — Principali musaici
pompejani — I Musaici della Casa del
Fauno — Il Leone — La Battaglia di Isso —
Ragioni perchè si dichiari così il soggetto
— A chi appartenga la composizione —
Studj di scultura in Pompei

VOLUME TERZO

CAPITOLO XIX. — Quartiere de’ soldati, e 5


Ludo gladiatorio? — Pagus Augustus
Felix — Ordinamenti militari di Roma —
Inclinazioni agricole — Qualità militari —
Valore personale — Formazione della
milizia — La leva — Refrattarj — Cause
d’esenzione — Leva tumultuaria —
Cavalleria — Giuramento — Gli evocati e i
conquisitori — Fanteria: Veliti, Astati,
Principi, Triarii — Centurie, manipoli, coorti,
legioni — Denominazione delle legioni —
Ordini della cavalleria: torme, decurie. —
Duci: propri e comuni — Centurioni —
Uragi, Succenturiones, Accensi,
Tergoductores, Decani — Signiferi —
Primopilo — Tribuni — Decurioni nella
cavalleria — Prefetti dei Confederati —
Legati — Imperatore — Armi — Raccolta
d’armi antiche nel Museo Nazionale di
Napoli — Catalogo del comm. Fiorelli —
Cenno storico — Armi trovate negli scavi
d’Ercolano e Pompei — Armi dei Veliti,
degli Astati, dei Principi, dei Triarii, della
cavalleria — Maestri delle armi — Esercizj:
passo, palaria, lotta, nuoto, salto, marce —
Fardelli e loro peso — Bucellatum —
Cavalleria numidica — Accampamenti —
Castra stativa — Forma del campo —
Principia — Banderuole — Insegne —
Aquilifer — Insegna del Manipolo —
Bandiera delle Centurie — Vessillo della
Cavalleria — Guardie del campo —
Excubiæ e Vigiliæ — Tessera di consegna
— Sentinelle — Procubitores — Istrumenti
militari: buccina, tuba, lituus, cornu,
timpanum — Tibicen, liticen, timpanotriba
— Stipendj militari — I Feciali, gli Auguri,
gli Aruspici e i pullarii — Sacrifici e
preghiere — Dello schierarsi in battaglia —
Sistema di fortificazioni — Macchine
guerresche: Poliorcetiæ: terrapieno, torre
mobile, testuggine, ariete, balista,
tollenone, altalena, elepoli, terebra,
galleria, vigna — Arringhe — La vittoria,
Inni e sacrificj — Premj: asta pura, monili,
braccialetti, catene — Corone: civica,
morale, castrense o vallare, navale o
rostrale, ossidionale, trionfale, ovale —
Altre distinzioni — Spoglia opima — Preda
bellica — Il trionfo — Veste palmata —
Trionfo della veste palmata — In
Campidoglio — Banchetto pubblico —
Trionfo navale — Ovazione — Onori del
trionfatore — Pene militari: decimazione,
vigesimazione, e centesimazione,
fustinarium, taglio della mano,
crocifissione, fustigazione leggiera, multa,
censio hastaria — Pene minori — Congedo

CAPITOLO XX. — Le Case. Differenza tra le 57


case pompejane e romane — Regioni ed
Isole — Cosa fosse il vestibulum e perchè
mancasse alle case pompejane — Piani —
Solarium — Finestre — Distribuzione delle
parti della casa — Casa di Pansa —
Facciata — La bottega del dispensator —
Postes, aulæ, antepagamenta — Janua —
Il portinajo — Prothyrum — Cavædium —
Compluvium ed impluvium — Puteal — Ara
dei Lari — I Penati — Cellæ, o contubernia
— Tablinum, cubicula, fauces, perystilium,
procœton, exedra, œcus, triclinium —
Officia antelucana — Trichila — Lusso de’
triclinii — Cucina — Utensili di cucina —
Inservienti di cucina — Camino: v’erano
camini allora? — Latrina — Lo xisto — Il
crittoportico — Lo sphæristerium, la
pinacoteca — Il balineum — L’Alæatorium
— La cella vinaria — Piani superiori e
recentissima scoperta — Cœnacula — La
Casa a tre piani — I balconi e la Casa del
Balcone pensile — Case principali in
Pompei — Casa di villeggiatura di M. Arrio
Diomede — La famiglia — Principio
costitutivo di essa — La nascita del figlio —
Cerimonie — La nascita della figlia —
Potestas, manus, mancipium — Minima,
media, maxima diminutio capitis —
Matrimonii: per confarreazione, uso,
coempzione — Trinoctium usurpatio —
Diritti della potestas, della manus, del
mancipium — Agnati, consanguinei —
Cognatio — Matrimonium, connubium —
Sponsali — Età del matrimonio — Il
matrimonio e la sua importanza — Bigamia
— Impedimenti — Concubinato — Divorzio
— Separazione — Diffarreatio —
Repudium — La dote — Donatio propter
nuptias — Nozioni sulla patria podestà —
Jus trium liberorum — Adozione — Tutela
— Curatela — Gli schiavi — Cerimonia
religiosa nel loro ingresso in famiglia —
Contubernium — Miglioramento della
condizione servile — Come si divenisse
schiavo — Mercato di schiavi — Diverse
classi di schiavi — Trattamento di essi —
Numero — Come si cessasse di essere
schiavi — I clienti — Pasti e banchetti
romani — Invocazioni al focolare —
Ghiottornie — Leggi alla gola — Lucullo e
le sue cene — Cene degli imperatori —
Jentaculum, prandium, merenda, cœna,
commissatio — Conviti publici — Cene
sacerdotali — Cene de’ magistrati — Cene
de’ trionfanti — Cene degli imperatori —
Banchetti di cerimonia — Triumviri
æpulones — Dapes — Triclinio — Le
mense — Suppellettili — Fercula —
Pioggie odorose — Abito e toletta da tavola
— Tovaglie e tovaglioli — Il re del
banchetto — Tricliniarca — Coena recta —
Primo servito — Secunda mensa —
Pasticcerie e confetture — Le posate —
Arte culinaria — Apicio — Manicaretto di
perle — Vini — Novellio Torquato milanese
— Servi della tavola: Coquus,
lectisterniator, nomenclator, prægustator,
structor, scissor, carptor, pincerna,
pocillator — Musica alle mense —
Ballerine — Gladiatori — Gli avanzi della
cena — Le lanterne di Cartagine — La
partenza de’ convitati — La toletta d’una
pompejana — Le cubiculares, le cosmetæ,
le calamistræ, ciniflones, cinerarii, la
psecae — I denti — La capigliatura — Lo
specchio — Punizioni della toaletta — Le
ugne — I profumi — Mundus muliebris — I
salutigeruli — Le Veneræ —
Sandaligerulæ, vestisplicæ, ornatrices —
Abiti e abbigliamenti — Vestiario degli
uomini — Abito de’ fanciulli — La bulla —
Vestito degli schiavi — I lavori del gineceo

CAPITOLO XXI. — I Lupanari. — Gli ozj di 165


Capua — La prostituzione — Riassunto
storico della prostituzione antica —
Prostituzione ospitale, sacra e legale — La
Bibbia ed Erodoto — Gli Angeli e le figlie
degli uomini — Le figlie di Loth — Sodoma
e Gomorra — Thamar — Legge di Mosè —
Zambri, Asa, Sansone, Abramo, Giacobbe,
Gedeone — Raab — Il Levita di Efraim —
David, Betsabea, la moglie di Nabal e la
Sunamite — Salomone e le sue concubine
— Prostituzione in Israele — Osea profeta
— I Babilonesi e la dea Militta — Venere e
Adone — Astarte — Le orgie di Mitra —
Prostituzione sacra in Egitto — Ramsete e
Ceope — Cortigiane più antiche —
Rodope, Cleina, Stratonice, Irene,
Agatoclea — Prostituzione greca —
Dicterion — Ditteriadi, auletridi, eterìe —
Eterìe celebri — Aspasia — Saffo e l’amor
lesbio — La prostituzione in Italia — La
lupa di Romolo e Remo — Le feste
lupercali — Baccanali e Baccanti — La
cortigiana Flora e i giuochi florali — Culto
di Venere in Roma — Feste a Venere
Mirtea — Il Pervigilium Veneris —
Traduzione — Altre cerimonie nelle feste di
Venere — I misteri di Iside — Feste
Priapee — Canzoni priapee — Emblemi
itifallici — Abbondanti in Ercolano e
Pompei — Raccolta Pornografica nel
Museo di Napoli — Sue vicende — Oggetti
pornografici d’Ercolano e Pompei — I
misteri della Dea Bona — Degenerazione
de’ misteri della Dea Bona — Culto di
Cupido, Mutino, Pertunda, Perfica, Prema,
Volupia, Lubenzia, Tolano e Ticone —
Prostituzione legale — Meretrici forestiere
— Cortigiane patrizie — Licentia stupri —
Prostitute imperiali — Adulterii — Bastardi
— Infanticidi — Supposizioni ed
esposizioni d’infanti — Legge Giulia: de
adulteriis — Le Famosæ — La Lesbia di
Catullo — La Cinzia di Properzio — La
Delia di Tibullo — La Corinna di Ovidio —
Ovidio, Giulia e Postumo Agrippa — La
Licori di Cornelio Gallo — Incostanza delle
famosæ — Le sciupate di Orazio — La
Marcella di Marziale e la moglie —
Petronio Arbitro e il Satyricon — Turno —
La Prostituzione delle Muse — Giovenale
— Il linguaggio per gesti — Comessationes
— Meretrices e prostibulæ — Prosedæ,
alicariæ, blitidæ, bustuariæ, casoritæ,
copæ, diobolæ, quadrantariæ, foraneæ,
vagæ, summenianæ — Le delicatæ —
Singrafo di fedeltà — Le pretiosæ —
Ballerine e Ludie — Crescente cinedo e
Tyria Percisa in Pompei — Pueri meritorii,
spadones, pædicones — Cinedi — Lenoni
— Numero de’ lupanari in Roma —
Lupanare romano — Meretricium nomen
— Filtri amatorii — Stabula, casaurium,
lustrum, ganeum — Lupanari pompejani —
Il Lupanare Nuovo — I Cuculi — Postriboli
minori

CAPITOLO XXII. La Via delle tombe. — 285


Estremi officii ai morenti — La Morte —
Conclamatio — Credenze intorno all’anima
ed alla morte — Gli Elisii e il Tartaro —
Culto dei morti e sua antichità — Gli Dei
Mani — Denunzia di decesso — Tempio
della Dea Libitina — Il libitinario —
Pollinctores — La toaletta del morto — Il
triente in bocca — Il cipresso funerale e
suo significato — Le imagini degli Dei
velate — Esposizione del cadavere — Il
certificato di buona condotta —
Convocazione al funerale — Exequiæ,
Funus, publicum, indictivum, tacitum,
gentilitium — Il mortoro: i siticini, i tubicini,
le prefiche, la nenia; Piatrices, Sagæ,
Expiatrices, Simpulatrices, i Popi e i
Vittimari, le insegne onorifiche, le imagini
de’ maggiori, i mimi e l’archimimo, sicinnia,
amici e parenti, la lettiga funebre — I
clienti, gli schiavi e i familiari — La rheda
— L’orazione funebre — Origine di essa —
Il rogo — Il Bustum — L’ultimo bacio e
l’ultimo vale — Il fuoco alla pira — Munera
— L’invocazione ai venti — Legati di
banchetti annuali e di beneficenza —
Decursio — Le libazioni — I bustuari —
Ludi gladiatorii — La ustrina — Il sepolcro
comune — L’epicedion — Ossilegium —
L’urna — Suffitio — Il congedo —
Monimentum — Vasi lacrimatorj — Fori
nelle tombe — Cremazione — I bambini e i
colpiti dal fulmine — Subgrundarium —
Silicernium — Visceratio — Novemdialia —
Denicales feriæ — Funerali de’ poveri —
Sandapila — Puticuli — Purificazione della
casa — Lutto, publico e privato —
Giuramento — Commemorazioni funebri,
Feste Parentali, Feralia, Lemuralia, Inferiæ
— I sepolcri — Sepulcrum familiare —
Sepulcrum comune — Sepolcro ereditario
— Cenotafii — Columellæ o cippi, mensæ,
labra, arcæ — Campo Sesterzio in Roma
— La formula Tacito nomine — Prescrizioni
pe’ sepolcri — Are pei sagrifizj — Leggi
mortuarie e intorno alle tombe — Punizioni
de’ profanatori di esse — Via delle tombe
in Pompei — Tombe di M. Cerrinio e di A.
Vejo — Emiciclo di Mammia — Cippi di M.
Porcio, Venerio Epafrodito, Istacidia,
Istacidio Campano, Melisseo Apro e
Istacidio Menoico — Giardino delle colonne
in musaico — Tombe delle Ghirlande —
Albergo e scuderia — Sepolcro dalle porte
di marmo — Sepolcreto della famiglia
Istacidia — Misura del piede romano — La
tomba di Nevoleja Tiche e di Munazio
Fausto — Urna di Munazio Atimeto —
Mausoleo dei due Libella — Il decurionato
in Pompei — Cenotafio di Cejo e Labeone
— Cinque scheletri — Columelle — A Iceio
Comune — A Salvio fanciullo — A Velasio
Grato — Camera sepolcrale di Cn. Vibrio
Saturnino — Sepolcreto della famiglia Arria
— Sepolture fuori la porta Nolana —
Deduzioni

CONCLUSIONE 371

Appendice Prima. I busti di Bruto e di


Pompeo 383
Appendice Seconda. L’Eruzione del Vesuvio
del 1872 391
Sonetto a P. A. Curti di P. Cominazzi 419
Indice delle Incisioni sparse nell’opera 421
Indice Generale 423
FINE DELL’INDICE.
NOTE:

1. Saturn. I, 1.

2. Pompeja. Pag. 136.

3. Pag. 9.

4. Sat. 6:

O villa, e quando io rivedrotti?


Trad. Gargallo.

5. Lib. 3. 22:

Terra nata dell’armi all’alta gloria


Non al crudo terror.
Trad. Vismara.

6. Ann. 2-14. «Quelle targhe e pertiche sconce de’ barbari fra le macchie e
gli alberi non valere, come i lanciotti e le spade e l’assettata armatura.
Tirassero di punta spesso al viso.» Tr. di Bernardo Davanzati.

7. Lib. IX, 5.

8. Tit. Liv., lib. XXXV, 2 e 23.

9. Rosini, Antiquit. Roman. Lib. X, cap. 4.

10. Lib. VII, cap. 4.

11. Plin. Nat. Hist., lib. X, 5.

12. Sc. II. 16. — «Osserva dapprima qual regime abbiano gli eserciti nostri,
quindi qual fatica e quanta cibaria portino in campo per mezzo mese ed
attrezzi d’uso; perocchè il portar il palo, lo scudo, il gladio, e l’elmo i
nostri soldati non contino nel peso, più che gli omeri, le mani e le altre
membra, afferman essi le armi essere le membra del soldato, le quali
così agevolmente portano, che dove ne fosse il bisogno, gittato il
restante peso, potrebbero coll’armi, come colle membra proprie
combattere.»

13. Ep. 57.

14. Nelle nostre provincie, massime nella Bresciana, esiste un pane dolciato
che si chiama bussolà, dal bucellatum romano, ma il bucellatum, come
esprime il nome, era nel mezzo bucato, onde portarlo all’uopo sospeso
o infilzato, viaggiando, sull’asta.

15.

Ed aste scisse in quattro parti, e pali


Acuminati.
Georgica II, v. 25.

16. Hist. Rom. Lib. XXVII.

17.

Movendo aquile, insegne, aste latine


Contro latine insegne, aquile ed aste.
Lib. I. v. 7. Trad. del conte Franc. Cassi.

18.

Eran di fieno: ma quel fieno istesso


Da ciascun riscotea tanto rispetto,
Quanto l’aquila tua ne esige adesso.
Si stava in cima a lungo palo eretto
Un manipol di fieno, onde di fanti
Certo drappel manipolar fu detto.
Trad. di G. B. Bianchi.

19. Tacito, Ann. XV. 29.

20. Svetonio, In Vespasianum, 6.

21. Lib. I. 43.

22. De Bello Jugurt. LXV.

23.

«La tessera dà il segno


Ove di guardia scritte son le veci.»
Lib. X.

24. Just. Lips. De Milit. Rom. v. 9.

25. Lib. IV. II. 79:

Or del tardo pastore entro le mura


La buccina risuona.

26. Lib. XI. 475:

E già la roca
Tromba ne va per la città squillando
De la battaglia il sanguinoso accento.
Tr. Annibal Caro.

27.

Non la tuba diretta e non il corno


Di ricurvo metal.

28. v. 734:

Con il corno ricurvo


Il richiamo squillò e il lituo adunco
Colla stridula voce i suoni emise.

29. Thebaid. 2. 78;

S’udian per tutto rimbombare i vuoti


Bossi e di bronzo i timpani sonanti.
Trad. di Selvaggio Porpora,
pseud. del Cardinal Guido Bentivoglio.

30. Dion. d’Alicarn. II, 73.

31. Servio, X, 14.

32. Vol. I, cap. III.

33. Trad. di Felice Bellotti.

34. Così Cicerone nel Lib 2, Divin, 34: Attulit in cavæ pullos, is qui ex eo
nominatur pullarius. [35]

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