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Scarcity

Total questions: 40

Worksheet time: 13mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Specialization and trade ---.

a)

can increase the quantity and lower the price of goods and services without any necessary improvement in technology

b)

leads to increased prices and lower production

c)

always leads to bankruptcy with a sale of all of the corporation's assets

d)

all of these

2.

These are the factors of production --4--

a)

entrepreneurship

b)

land (resources)

c)

capital (money, borrowed money, machines, structures, market position)

d)

labor, either contracted or direct employment

e)

marketing plans

3.

Labor services are ---

a)

owned

b)

rented

4.

Using backward imputation. The land of the Champagne region of France has value because ---

a)

Champagne has value

b)

it is valuable

c)

real estate always has value

5.
a)

Thomas Sowell

b)

Walter Williams

c)

F.A. Hayek

d)

Hermando de Soto Polar

6.
a)

Hernando de Soto Polar

b)

F.A. Hayek

c)

Thomas Sowell

d)

Walter Williams

7.
a)

F.A. Hayek

b)

Walter Williams

c)

Thomas Sowell

d)

Hernand de Soto Polar

8.
a)

Walter Williams

b)

Hernando de Soto Polar

c)

Thomas Sowell

d)

Milton Friedman

9.

vision, responsibility, decision maker, connections, special knowledge, extra effort, tenacity, innovation, organizational skills, sensitive to consumer demands, commitment

a)

these are entrepreneurial quality brought to production of goods, sales, and providing services

b)

these are common labor values brought to production and every worked test so far has all of them

10.

You must give up something to get it

a)

shortage

b)

scarcity

11.

You just cannot get it

a)

shortage

b)

scarcity

12.

Trade is made of ---

a)

win

b)

uno games

13.

Capitalism is a --- system.

a)

profit

b)

loss

c)

profit and loss

d)

orange eater's

14.

Prices are --- that set value they are --- that respond to value.

a)

not levers, metrics

b)

not metrics, lever

15.

The failure of some businesses is --3--

a)

an opportunity to hire skilled workers on the cheap

b)

an opportunity to buy high quality used equipment on the cheap

c)

an opportunity to expand markets with a lower cost of doing business

d)

an opportunity to get away with behaviors that you'd never get away with previoously

16.

Entrepreneurs generally have insights on --2--

a)

customer desires even if the customer doesn't know them

b)

better, cheaper, faster production techniques and technologies

c)

how to make workers happy regardless of production and consumer damanges

17.

The solution to the potato ignorance was ---

a)

entrepreneurial equilibration

b)

derived labor value

18.

The allocation of scarce resources that have alternative uses.

a)

economics defines

b)

public choice defined

19.

There is no such thing as ---.

a)

as a free lunch

b)

brown horses

c)

swing sets

20.
a)

Kamala Harris

b)

Joe Biden

c)

Donald Trump

d)

Mike Pence

21.
a)

Donald Trump

b)

Kamala harris

c)

Mike Pence

d)

Joe Biden

22.
a)

Mike Pence

b)

Kamala Harris

c)

Donald Trump

d)

Joe Biden

23.
a)

Mike Pence

b)

Donald Trump

c)

Kamala Harris

d)

Joe Biden

24.

Quarters, dimes, nickels, and pennies are

a)

coins

b)

token

25.

Gold and silver are ---

a)

real money

b)

fiat money

c)

representative money

26.

There is no such thing as a ---

a)

free lunch

b)

working Ford car

27.
a)

real money

b)

fiat money

28.

a)

service

b)

manufacturing

29.

a)

service

b)

manufacturing

30.

a)

Fiat currency

b)

real money

31.

A free market is a ---

a)

spontaneous order

b)

command and control system

32.

All of these are necessary for the world's poor to have access to a broader world of business opportunity and wealth. EXCEPT (Hernando De Soto)

a)

Proof of ownership of Private property

b)

The ability to conduct business without government permissions

c)

The ability to identify oneself to a broader world

d)

An important family name

33.

The actions of entrepreneur ---

a)

both equilibrate and dis-equilibrate

b)

dis-equilibrate

c)

equilibrate

34.

Specialization and trade can cause greater prosperity even without any other improvements.

a)

true

b)

false

35.

Land, Labor, Capital, Entrepreneurship

a)

Productivity Factors

b)

Factor of Production

36.

The opportunity represented by massive airline bankruptcy is

a)

plane becme expensive

b)

the availability of cheap airliners

37.

You either can get the item or you cannot get the item. There is nothing you can do about it.

a)

Scarcity

b)

Shortage

38.

You have to give up something in order to get it

a)

scarcity

b)

shortage

39.

Truckers do not want to go anywhere with an empty truck

a)

the empty truck represents an opportunity to trade

b)

false

40.

Even out supplies, meet demand, tend to lower prices - eventually, find new uses for resources.

a)

Result of entrepreneurial action

b)

Result of government action