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Economics - Midterm Exam 2019

Total questions: 48

Worksheet time: 2hrs 36mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Definition of Economics

a)

The study of how society uses its limited resources

b)

Concerned with the production, consumption, and transfer of wealth.

c)

The allocation of scarce resources

d)

All of the above

2.

What best describes scarcity

a)

Malnutrition that affects sailors when they are out at sea for long periods of time.

b)

What you need to survive

c)

Dealing with limited resources and unlimited wants.

d)

The bottom level of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs

3.

As price goes up, quantity supplied increases. This is what?

a)

The law of demand

b)

the law of scarcity

c)

the law of supply

d)

Keeping it real

4.

Price and quantity demanded are inversely related. This describes the law of demand. What does this mean?

a)

As price goes up, demand goes up

b)

As price goes down, demand goes down

c)

As price goes up, demand goes down

d)

Demand is indifferent to price

5.

England can produce 10 units of what in 2 hours. Portugal can produce 20 units of wheat in 2 hours. With regard to wheat production, Portugal has what...?

a)

Absolute advantage in wheat production

b)

Comparative advantage in what prioduction

c)

Equality in wheat production

d)

none of the

6.

When calculating comparative advantage between two countries you are determining what?

a)

Opportunity costs

b)

Absolute costs

c)

Who has the best quality product

d)

Who has the coolest national flag

7.

Coke and Pepsi are considered what?

a)

Compliments

b)

Substitiutes

c)

Leading indicators

d)

Lagging indicators

8.

If the price for Coke goes up significantly, the demand for Pepsi will likely do what?

a)

Will increase or go up

b)

Will decrease or go down

c)

Stay the same

d)

None of the above

9.

Peanut butter and jelly can be considered what?

a)

Substitutes

b)

Compliments

c)

Measure of inflation

d)

measure of unemployment

10.

Assuming that Oreos and milk are compliments; if the price of Oreos goes down significantly, the demand for milk will likely do what

a)

Go up

b)

Go down

c)

Stay the same

d)

None of the above

11.

The Law of Demand relates to how _________ affects quantity demanded.

a)

Substitutes

b)

Price

c)

Compliments

d)

Supply

12.

The price for margarine (a butter substitute) goes down. The demand curve for butter will do what?

a)

Shift to the right

b)

Shift to the left

c)

Stay the same

d)

None of the above

13.

There is a baby boom in a country. How would this affect the demand for diapers.

a)

Demand for diapers would increase

b)

Demand for diapers would decrease

c)

demand would stay the same

d)

the supply for diapers would decrease

14.

If population were to decrease. the demand curve for goods and services would likely do what?

a)

Shift to the right

b)

Shift to the left

c)

stay the same

d)

none of the above

15.

If refinery costs for oil production increase, the supply curve for oil will do what?

a)

Shift to the left

b)

Shift to the right

c)

Stay the same

d)

None of the above

16.

When your income goes up demand for things that are of poor quality typically go down. These types of goods and services are considered what?

a)

Normal goods

b)

Inferior goods

c)

Luxury goods

d)

Necessary goods

17.

If quantity demanded is greater than quantity supplied you will have a what?

a)

Shortage

b)

Surplus

c)

Equilibrium

d)

All of the above

18.

If the price of a good is currently set above the equilibrium price you will have a ________ until price goes down and/or demand increases.

a)

Shortage

b)

Surplus

c)

Equilibrium

d)

All of the above

19.

A change or shift in supply would occur in all of the following market conditions except what?

a)

Cost of inputs

b)

Number of sellers in the market

c)

A producer selling at a higher price

d)

Taxes or subsidies

20.

Unions were started to combat poor working conditions for employees after the onset of the industrial revolution. Which of the following makes the most sense.

a)

They increase labor costs and decrease supply

b)

They decrease labor costs and increase supply

c)

They have no effect on supply costs

21.

Taxes do which of the following?

a)

Raise purchase prices and reduce the quantity supplied

b)

Decrease purchase prices

c)

They do not affect prices

d)

None of the above

22.

These Economic systems typically have market inefficiencies and low worker productivity.

a)

Market economy

b)

Command economy

c)

Mixed economy

23.

A tribe in the Amazon forest that pays people with raccoon pelts probably has what type of economy?

a)

Traditional

b)

Market

c)

Command

d)

Mixed

24.

Canada and the United States have what type of economy?

a)

Command

b)

Mixed

c)

Traditional

25.

Term to describe a "hands-off" approach by the government towards the economy.

a)

Chacun son gout

b)

Laissez Faire

c)

The invisible hand

d)

Not yours! Mine!

26.

Another term for a market economy

a)

Communism

b)

Dictatorship

c)

Capitalism

d)

Socialism

27.

Households provide all of the following to the economy except...

a)

Labor

b)

Capital

c)

Land

d)

Inflation

28.

Exports contribute positively to a country's GDP

a)

True

b)

False

29.

Real GDP excludes rising prices

a)

True

b)

False

30.

The largest component of GDP

a)

Consumer consumption

b)

Business Investment

c)

Government spending

d)

Exports

31.

If a firm produces inside the border of the U.S. it is...

a)

Included in GDP

b)

Is not included in GDP

32.

The U.S. has a negative trade balance. This means what?

a)

Exports exceed imports

b)

Imports exceed exports

c)

Exports are equal to imports

d)

GDP is negative

33.

GDP = C+I+G+(X-M); what does G stand for?

a)

Goods

b)

Government spending

c)

Gratuity

d)

Green production

34.

A business that has two or more owners with little government regulation

a)

Employee owned

b)

Partnership

c)

sole proprietorship

d)

Corporation

35.

The most you can lose is your investment. This would characterize what type of business.

a)

Sole propritorship

b)

General Partnership

c)

Employee Owend

d)

Corporation

36.

If you have a business but had to pay a fee to a "parent" corporation in to obtain the rights to own and operate it you probably own a...

a)

Corporation

b)

Sole proprietorship

c)

Partnership

d)

Franchise

37.

The shape of supply curve in the long run

a)

Horizontal

b)

Vertical

c)

Slope up and to the right

d)

Slope down and to the right

38.

The total demand for all goods and services

a)

Aggregate demand

b)

Aggregate supply

c)

Business cycle

d)

Expansion

39.

Reasons the total demand curve slopes down and to the right.

a)

Wealth effect

b)

Interest rate effect

c)

Foreign exchange effect

d)

All of the above

40.

If interest rates go down, then interest rate sensitive spending will do what?

a)

Go down

b)

Go up

c)

Spending is indifferent to rates

d)

None of the above

41.

An example of interest rate sensitive spending

a)

Financing the purchase of a new car

b)

Buying a house with Cash

c)

Buying groceries

d)

Selling your baseball card collection

42.

The stock market is an example of a _______ _______.

a)

Lagging indicator

b)

Coincident indicator

c)

Leading indicator

d)

Bum indicator

43.

The CPI is a _______ _______, which measures inflation.

a)

Lagging indicator

b)

Leading indicator

c)

Coincident Indicator

d)

Total indicator

44.

The most important Coincident indicator which measures economic growth.

a)

GDP

b)

Stock market

c)

The heat index

d)

NASDAQ

45.

Two main assumptions we make when discussing business cycles and GDP growth

a)

Death and Taxes

b)

fluctuating markets and inflation

c)

Unemployment and inflation

d)

Increasing technology and an increasing population

46.

If consumer confidence increases, what will happen to the aggregate demand curve

a)

shift to the left

b)

shift to the right

c)

remain unchanged

d)

implode

47.

What is the relationship between inflation and unemployment in the long run.

a)

if inflation goes up, unemployment goes up

b)

if inflation goes down, unemployment goes down

c)

if inflation goes up unemployment remains stable

d)

there is no correlation because in the long run Aggregate Supply is indifferent to prices

48.

We always have some level of unemployment, usually between 4% and 6%. According to economics, why?

a)

Structural and Frictional unemployment

b)

Structural and Cyclical unemployment

c)

Cyclical and Frictional unemployment

d)

There are always lazy people