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Semester Exam Review

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Construction workers who cannot work during winter time due to the weather experience what type of unemployment?

a)

Seasonal Unemployment

b)

Cyclical Unemployment

c)

Structural Unemployment

d)

Frictional Unemployment

2.

Which of the following is not a factor of production?

a)

Natural Resources

b)

Human Resources

c)

Consumer Resources

d)

Capital Resources

3.

In a market system, the wages for each job is determined by -

a)

The worker

b)

The employer

c)

Supply and demand of labor

d)

The US Government

4.

The cost of borrowing money from a bank is called -

a)

interest rate

b)

discount rate

c)

rate of return

d)

loan rate

5.

Keynsian Economics advocated government spending to -

a)

promote international trade

b)

ease the effects of the business cycle

c)

decrease business activity

d)

decrease the GDP

6.

A ________________ is when a country exports more than it imports.

a)

trade deficit

b)

trade surplus

c)

balance of trade

d)

absolute advantage

7.

The FDIC or Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation ________________________ and _______________________

a)

Protects personal savings from bank failure, is still used today

b)

Protects banks from failing, is still used today

c)

Protects personal savings from bank failure, was abolished in 2017 by Trump

d)

Protects the federal government's deposits in banks, was created in 2010 by Obama.

8.

Which of the following would most likely lead to a decrease in consumer spending?

a)

Increased income taxes

b)

Decreased income taxes

c)

Decreased interest rate

d)

Increase in government spending

9.

Which of the following is the only reason a home builder can refuse to build a person a home?

a)

The buyer has bad credit

b)

The buyer has a large family

c)

The buyer is not from the United States

d)

The buyer is not the same religion as the builder.

10.

__________________ is based on profit motive and private ownership of property.

a)

Communism

b)

Subsistence

c)

Capitalism

d)

Socialism

11.

Scarcity occurs because -

a)

wants are unlimited, resources are limited

b)

wants are limited, resources are unlimited

c)

wants are unlimited,resources are unlimited

d)

wants are limited, resources are limited

12.

If a company fires 3 workers in order to replace them with machines which economic question are they addressing?

a)

What to produce?

b)

For whom to produce?

c)

How to produce?

d)

Why to produce?

13.

Which of the following describes economic system of the Soviet Union?

a)

production and prices were controlled by businesses

b)

production was determined by tradition

c)

consumer controlled prices

d)

the government planned the economy setting prices.

14.

Which of the following is an example of "international interdependence"?

a)

Americans like to drive large trucks and SUV's

b)

Brazil buys US automobiles and the US buys Brazilian coffee

c)

Canadian hockey players prefer hockey sticks made in Canada

d)

Florida Orange Juice is sold all over the United States.

15.

Which of the following is the most common role of the US government in the economy?

a)

setting prices

b)

establishing laws to ensure workers are safe

c)

requiring factory owners to produce what the government wants

d)

determining jobs for US citizens