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Economics Final Exam Review

Total questions: 60

Worksheet time: 30mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What are the four main factors of production?

a)

Land, labor, capital, and entrepreneurship

b)

Land, labor, management, and work

c)

Education, capital, labor, and fun

d)

Entrepreneurship, labor, money, and capital

2.

What concept represents unlimited wants and limited resources and is the basis of Economics?

a)

Equity

b)

Management

c)

Free Market

d)

Scarcity

3.

What is the goal of every economic society?

a)

Economic efficiency

b)

Management

c)

Free market

d)

Scarcity

4.

A free market structure is often based around which of the following concepts?

a)

Private property and slavery

b)

Equal taxation for all

c)

Private property and voluntary exchange

d)

Voluntary exchange and open elections

5.

Which type of economic structure provides some government intervention but also allows for some individual freedom?

a)

Free Market

b)

Mixed

c)

Command

d)

Traditional

6.

What is the main incentive for those entering into a free market structure?

a)

Scarcity

b)

Creation

c)

Equity

d)

Profit

7.

Private property is incredibly important to which type of economic system?

a)

Traditional

b)

Command

c)

Mixed

d)

Free Market

8.

If an economy uses taxes in order to fund public goods, what type of economy would this be?

a)

Free Market

b)

Mixed

c)

Command

d)

Traditional

9.

Which economic philosopher was the first to advocate for a purely free market system?

a)

Karl Marx

b)

Adam Smith

c)

Kanye West

d)

Kanye East

10.

What is the Law of Demand?

a)

Price and supply move in the same direction

b)

Price and quantity demanded move in the same direction

c)

Price and quantity demanded have an inverse relationship

d)

Price and supply have an inverse relationship

11.

In which direction does a supply curve generally go?

a)

Sideways

b)

Up

c)

Down

d)

Around

12.

In which direction does a demand curve generally go?

a)

Sideways

b)

Up

c)

Down

d)

Around

13.

Which of the choices below describe equilibrium?

a)

The intersection of demand and supply

b)

The creation of surplus

c)

Any point under the line of efficiency

d)

The intersection of a shortage and voter freedom

14.

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?

a)

Demand would increase

b)

Demand would decrease

c)

Supply would fall

d)

GDP would rise

15.

Which of the following is an example of labor?

a)

Water

b)

Trees

c)

Oil

d)

Driving a delivery truck

16.

A ______ is temporary while ______________ is forever

a)

Shortage, scarcity

b)

Scarcity, shortage

c)

Sweetness, scarcity

d)

Creativity, shortness of breath

17.

When deciding whether to import or export goods, which economic question is being answered?

a)

What to produce?

b)

How to produce?

c)

For whom to produce?

d)

Where to produce?

18.

Which of the following is NOT one of the main economic questions?

a)

What to produce?

b)

How to produce?

c)

Where to produce?

d)

For whom to produce?

19.

What type of economic system has the government making all economic decisions?

a)

Free Market

b)

Mixed

c)

Command

d)

Traditional

20.

Which economic system has no government intervention in the economy?

a)

Free Market

b)

Mixed

c)

Command

d)

Traditional

21.

When deciding whether to produce oil or lumber, which economic question is being answered?

a)

How to create?

b)

How to produce?

c)

What to produce?

d)

For whom to produce?

22.

The United States, Germany, and France are all examples of what type of economic structure?

a)

Free Market

b)

Mixed

c)

Command

d)

Traditional

23.

Which economic philosopher believed in a purely communist/command system?

a)

Adam Smith

b)

Karl Marx

c)

Freidrich Hayek

d)

John Keynes

24.

What does a change in technology normally signify for supply levels?

a)

A decrease in demand

b)

An increase in demand

c)

A decrease in supply

d)

An increase in supply

25.

If more efficient systems make cheese production quicker, which way would the supply curve for cheese shift?

a)

Right

b)

Left

c)

It would not move

d)

Backwards

26.

If more efficient systems make cheese production quicker, which determinant of supply is at work?

a)

Technology

b)

Number of Suppliers

c)

Anticipated Level of Demand

d)

Subsidies

27.

Which of the following would cause a general increase in prices?

a)

A decrease in preferences

b)

An increase in the cost of inputs

c)

Unemployment levels rising

d)

A decrease in the cost of inputs

28.

If there is an increase in rubber prices that results in a decrease in the supply of tires, which determinant of supply is present?

a)

Anticipated level of demand

b)

Taxes and subsidies

c)

Input costs

d)

Number of suppliers

29.

If demand for a certain good or service is NOT very sensitive to price change what is this typically called?

a)

Inelastic

b)

Elastic

c)

In surplus

d)

In shortage

30.

Which of the following would be the most elastic?

a)

Gasoline

b)

Antibiotics

c)

Hearing aids

d)

Sour patch kids

31.

Which of the following would be considered an elastic good?

a)

Car Insurance

b)

Antibiotics

c)

Legal Council

d)

Jewelry

32.

What economic law states that the more one consumes of a good or service the lower the demand will go?

a)

The Law of Demand

b)

The Law of Supply

c)

The Law of Diminishing Marginal Utility

d)

The Law of Upward Facing Mobility

33.

What does stock represent?

a)

Partial ownership in a corporation

b)

Money earned by the hour

c)

Special tax considerations

d)

A surplus of dividends

34.

Which type of business typically has a board of directors rather than an owner?

a)

Sole Proprietorship

b)

Partnership

c)

Corporation

d)

Flea Market

35.

A celebrity endorsement that attempts to increase demand of a good would be categorized as what determinant of demand?

a)

Tastes and preferences

b)

Change in population

c)

Substitute goods

d)

Complementary goods

36.

Hotdogs and hotdog buns would be considered what type of goods?

a)

Substitute

b)

Complementary

c)

Unrelated

d)

Opposite

37.

JIF and Peter Pan Peanut Butter would be considered what type of goods?

a)

Substitute

b)

Complementary

c)

Unrelated

d)

Opposite

38.

If mass migration to California increase the demand for housing in California cities, which determinant of demand is present?

a)

Change in population

b)

Change in Anticipated Level of Demand

c)

Change in Tastes and Preferences

d)

Change in Equity

39.

Which determinant of supply increase the ending costs based on the cost of materials along the supply line?

a)

Change in Anticipated Level of Demand

b)

Change in Input Costs

c)

Change in technology

d)

Change in Number of Suppliers

40.

If joggers fall out of fashion in favor of baggy sweatpants, what determinant of demand is present?

a)

Change in Tastes and Perferences

b)

Change in Input Costs

c)

Change in Complementary Goods

d)

Change in Substitute Goods

41.

What is often true of a natural monopoly?

a)

They raise prices frequently

b)

The are nonexistant in America

c)

They are not harmful to consumers

d)

They are corporations

42.

Who generally benefits from inflation?

a)

Those in debt

b)

Those with savings

c)

Lenders

d)

Investors

43.

Which of the following is NOT a basic form of business structure?

a)

Natural monopoly

b)

Partnership

c)

Corporation

d)

Sole Proprietorship

44.

Which type of business structure has the least amount of risk?

a)

Oligopoly

b)

Sole Proprietorship

c)

Partnership

d)

Corporation

45.

Sole Proprietorships and partnerships are similar in that they both:

a)

Receive inclusion from mandatory spending

b)

Are under tax shelters

c)

Hold the owner(s) personally responsible

d)

Keep ownership in the form of stock

46.

Combining businesses across an entire market is known as a

a)

Horizontal merger

b)

Vertical merger

c)

Corporation

d)

Conglomerate Merger

47.

Combining businesses across the same line of supply is known as

a)

Horizontal merger

b)

Vertical merger

c)

Corporation

d)

Conglomerate Merger

48.

Which form of competition is most likely to engage in collusion and cartel formation?

a)

Monopolistic Competition

b)

Monopoly

c)

Perfect Competition

d)

Oligopoly

49.

Which form of competition has easy entry and exit as well as the lowest possible prices?

a)

Monopolistic Competition

b)

Monopoly

c)

Perfect Competition

d)

Oligopoly

50.

Which type of market structure generally has the highest prices?

a)

Monopolistic Competition

b)

Monopoly

c)

Perfect Competition

d)

Oligopoly

51.

Which statement generally applies to all forms of competition?

a)

Price and competition are not related

b)

The more competitors the lower the prices

c)

The more competitors the higher the prices

d)

The fewer the competitors the lower the prices

52.

Which function of money is being used when money and wealth are stored in a bank?

a)

Creation of Bills

b)

Medium of Exchange

c)

Store of Value

d)

Unit of Account

53.

Which of the following would NOT be considered non-price competition?

a)

A 50% off sale

b)

Value points

c)

Celebrity endorsements

d)

Billboards

54.

Which of the following would NOT be considered a public good?

a)

A movie theater

b)

Police and fire services

c)

Oak Ridge High School

d)

Oak Ridge Highway

55.

What are the three main categories of the federal budget?

a)

Mandatory, discretionary, and interest of debt

b)

Education, defense, and social security

c)

Mandatory, discretionary, and education

d)

Discretionary, debt, and building

56.

Which category of The Federal Budget includes social security and medicare?

a)

Collusion

b)

Mandatory

c)

Discretionary

d)

Interest of Debt

57.

America's income tax rate increases as one earns more income. What type of tax is that?

a)

Regressive

b)

Excise

c)

Progressive

d)

Proportional

58.

What is the main tool that The Federal Reserve uses to stabilize the economy?

a)

Taxes

b)

Interest Rates

c)

Government spending

d)

Fiscal policy

59.

What are the four main phases of the economic cycle?

a)

Boom, bust, expansion, and growth

b)

Creation, destruction, peak, trough

c)

Peak, exhaustion, growth, depression

d)

Boom, contraction, trough, expansion

60.

In actual practice, what type of tax is a sales tax?

a)

Regressive

b)

Progressive

c)

Proportional

d)

Excise