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WorksheetsEconomics Final Exam Review
Total questions: 60
Worksheet time: 30mins
What are the four main factors of production?
Land, labor, capital, and entrepreneurship
Land, labor, management, and work
Education, capital, labor, and fun
Entrepreneurship, labor, money, and capital
What concept represents unlimited wants and limited resources and is the basis of Economics?
Equity
Management
Free Market
Scarcity
What is the goal of every economic society?
Economic efficiency
Management
Free market
Scarcity
A free market structure is often based around which of the following concepts?
Private property and slavery
Equal taxation for all
Private property and voluntary exchange
Voluntary exchange and open elections
Which type of economic structure provides some government intervention but also allows for some individual freedom?
Free Market
Mixed
Command
Traditional
What is the main incentive for those entering into a free market structure?
Scarcity
Creation
Equity
Profit
Private property is incredibly important to which type of economic system?
Traditional
Command
Mixed
Free Market
If an economy uses taxes in order to fund public goods, what type of economy would this be?
Free Market
Mixed
Command
Traditional
Which economic philosopher was the first to advocate for a purely free market system?
Karl Marx
Adam Smith
Kanye West
Kanye East
What is the Law of Demand?
Price and supply move in the same direction
Price and quantity demanded move in the same direction
Price and quantity demanded have an inverse relationship
Price and supply have an inverse relationship
In which direction does a supply curve generally go?
Sideways
Up
Down
Around
In which direction does a demand curve generally go?
Sideways
Up
Down
Around
Which of the choices below describe equilibrium?
The intersection of demand and supply
The creation of surplus
Any point under the line of efficiency
The intersection of a shortage and voter freedom
If good X and good Y are complements, what could be a consequence for good Y if there is a price increase on good X?
Demand would increase
Demand would decrease
Supply would fall
GDP would rise
Which of the following is an example of labor?
Water
Trees
Oil
Driving a delivery truck
A ______ is temporary while ______________ is forever
Shortage, scarcity
Scarcity, shortage
Sweetness, scarcity
Creativity, shortness of breath
When deciding whether to import or export goods, which economic question is being answered?
What to produce?
How to produce?
For whom to produce?
Where to produce?
Which of the following is NOT one of the main economic questions?
What to produce?
How to produce?
Where to produce?
For whom to produce?
What type of economic system has the government making all economic decisions?
Free Market
Mixed
Command
Traditional
Which economic system has no government intervention in the economy?
Free Market
Mixed
Command
Traditional
When deciding whether to produce oil or lumber, which economic question is being answered?
How to create?
How to produce?
What to produce?
For whom to produce?
The United States, Germany, and France are all examples of what type of economic structure?
Free Market
Mixed
Command
Traditional
Which economic philosopher believed in a purely communist/command system?
Adam Smith
Karl Marx
Freidrich Hayek
John Keynes
What does a change in technology normally signify for supply levels?
A decrease in demand
An increase in demand
A decrease in supply
An increase in supply
If more efficient systems make cheese production quicker, which way would the supply curve for cheese shift?
Right
Left
It would not move
Backwards
If more efficient systems make cheese production quicker, which determinant of supply is at work?
Technology
Number of Suppliers
Anticipated Level of Demand
Subsidies
Which of the following would cause a general increase in prices?
A decrease in preferences
An increase in the cost of inputs
Unemployment levels rising
A decrease in the cost of inputs
If there is an increase in rubber prices that results in a decrease in the supply of tires, which determinant of supply is present?
Anticipated level of demand
Taxes and subsidies
Input costs
Number of suppliers
If demand for a certain good or service is NOT very sensitive to price change what is this typically called?
Inelastic
Elastic
In surplus
In shortage
Which of the following would be the most elastic?
Gasoline
Antibiotics
Hearing aids
Sour patch kids
Which of the following would be considered an elastic good?
Car Insurance
Antibiotics
Legal Council
Jewelry
What economic law states that the more one consumes of a good or service the lower the demand will go?
The Law of Demand
The Law of Supply
The Law of Diminishing Marginal Utility
The Law of Upward Facing Mobility
What does stock represent?
Partial ownership in a corporation
Money earned by the hour
Special tax considerations
A surplus of dividends
Which type of business typically has a board of directors rather than an owner?
Sole Proprietorship
Partnership
Corporation
Flea Market
A celebrity endorsement that attempts to increase demand of a good would be categorized as what determinant of demand?
Tastes and preferences
Change in population
Substitute goods
Complementary goods
Hotdogs and hotdog buns would be considered what type of goods?
Substitute
Complementary
Unrelated
Opposite
JIF and Peter Pan Peanut Butter would be considered what type of goods?
Substitute
Complementary
Unrelated
Opposite
If mass migration to California increase the demand for housing in California cities, which determinant of demand is present?
Change in population
Change in Anticipated Level of Demand
Change in Tastes and Preferences
Change in Equity
Which determinant of supply increase the ending costs based on the cost of materials along the supply line?
Change in Anticipated Level of Demand
Change in Input Costs
Change in technology
Change in Number of Suppliers
If joggers fall out of fashion in favor of baggy sweatpants, what determinant of demand is present?
Change in Tastes and Perferences
Change in Input Costs
Change in Complementary Goods
Change in Substitute Goods
What is often true of a natural monopoly?
They raise prices frequently
The are nonexistant in America
They are not harmful to consumers
They are corporations
Who generally benefits from inflation?
Those in debt
Those with savings
Lenders
Investors
Which of the following is NOT a basic form of business structure?
Natural monopoly
Partnership
Corporation
Sole Proprietorship
Which type of business structure has the least amount of risk?
Oligopoly
Sole Proprietorship
Partnership
Corporation
Sole Proprietorships and partnerships are similar in that they both:
Receive inclusion from mandatory spending
Are under tax shelters
Hold the owner(s) personally responsible
Keep ownership in the form of stock
Combining businesses across an entire market is known as a
Horizontal merger
Vertical merger
Corporation
Conglomerate Merger
Combining businesses across the same line of supply is known as
Horizontal merger
Vertical merger
Corporation
Conglomerate Merger
Which form of competition is most likely to engage in collusion and cartel formation?
Monopolistic Competition
Monopoly
Perfect Competition
Oligopoly
Which form of competition has easy entry and exit as well as the lowest possible prices?
Monopolistic Competition
Monopoly
Perfect Competition
Oligopoly
Which type of market structure generally has the highest prices?
Monopolistic Competition
Monopoly
Perfect Competition
Oligopoly
Which statement generally applies to all forms of competition?
Price and competition are not related
The more competitors the lower the prices
The more competitors the higher the prices
The fewer the competitors the lower the prices
Which function of money is being used when money and wealth are stored in a bank?
Creation of Bills
Medium of Exchange
Store of Value
Unit of Account
Which of the following would NOT be considered non-price competition?
A 50% off sale
Value points
Celebrity endorsements
Billboards
Which of the following would NOT be considered a public good?
A movie theater
Police and fire services
Oak Ridge High School
Oak Ridge Highway
What are the three main categories of the federal budget?
Mandatory, discretionary, and interest of debt
Education, defense, and social security
Mandatory, discretionary, and education
Discretionary, debt, and building
Which category of The Federal Budget includes social security and medicare?
Collusion
Mandatory
Discretionary
Interest of Debt
America's income tax rate increases as one earns more income. What type of tax is that?
Regressive
Excise
Progressive
Proportional
What is the main tool that The Federal Reserve uses to stabilize the economy?
Taxes
Interest Rates
Government spending
Fiscal policy
What are the four main phases of the economic cycle?
Boom, bust, expansion, and growth
Creation, destruction, peak, trough
Peak, exhaustion, growth, depression
Boom, contraction, trough, expansion
In actual practice, what type of tax is a sales tax?
Regressive
Progressive
Proportional
Excise
