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Business Management- Chapter 8 Test

Total questions: 34

Worksheet time: 17mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Form utility usually applies only to services and not goods.

a)

True

b)

False

2.

Economic utility is one of the four types of utility that satisfy wants.

a)

True

b)

False

3.

Selling snow tires to a customer during the first snowstorm of the season is an example of providing time utility.

a)

True

b)

False

4.

Entrepreneurship is a factor of production.

a)

True

b)

False

5.

If a country did not produce any capital goods, it could not produce many consumer goods.

a)

True

b)

False

6.

Capital goods directly satisfy human wants.

a)

True

b)

False

7.

The United States has adequate resources to satisfy all the wants of all its people.

a)

True

b)

False

8.

Countries with a command economy are often dictatorships.

a)

True

b)

False

9.

Privatization occurs when a government transfers to a business its authority to provide a good or service.

a)

True

b)

False

10.

Demand is represented by wanting an expensive sports car without having the money to buy it.

a)

True

b)

False

11.

Satisfying wants involves four types of utility: time, place, possession, and

a)

economy

b)

capital

c)

form

d)

labor

12.

Producing omelet pans with nonstick coating addresses which type of utility?

a)

form

b)

possession

c)

time

d)

place

13.

Which statement is true about capital goods?

a)

They increase production costs.

b)

They decrease the productivity of labor.

c)

They increase the production of goods.

d)

They decrease the productivity of management.

14.

All of the following are basic features of capitalism EXCEPT

a)

private property ownership

b)

governmental control over wages

c)

business competition

d)

right to make a profit

15.

Steel that is used to produce tools and machinery is classified as a

a)

consumer good

b)

capital good

c)

market good

d)

production good

16.

In which type of economy does a central planning authority determine what, how, and for whom goods and services are produced?

a)

command economy

b)

mixed economy

c)

capital economy

d)

market economy

17.

In which political-economy system does the government have extensive control over the allocation of some resources but little control over distribution?

a)

communism

b)

socialism

c)

capitalism

d)

mixed

18.

The right to own property is NOT a feature of

a)

pure communism

b)

mixed economies

c)

traditional capitalism

d)

Western Europe socialism

19.

Which statement is most accurate about demand?

a)

If demand drops, profits drop.

b)

If demand drops, profits increase.

c)

If demand increases, profits drop.

d)

If demand drops, profits are not affected.

20.

If product is in short supply, what generally occurs?

a)

The price drops.

b)

The price rises.

c)

The demand decreases.

d)

The price is unaffected.

21.

A product's market price is the price at which

a)

the producer makes a reasonable profit

b)

the producer sells at a manageable loss

c)

consumer demand begins to drop

d)

the producer can no longer meet costs

22.

What normally happens during a recession?

a)

Both unemployment and production increase.

b)

Total supply exceeds demand.

c)

Total demand exceeds supply.

d)

The economic growth rate increases rapidly.

23.

A country's economic growth occurs when

a)

population growth exceeds output

b)

capital formation increases

c)

imports exceeds exports

d)

output exceeds population growth

24.

What typically occurs during a period of high inflation?

a)

Total supply exceeds demand.

b)

Prices rise rapidly.

c)

The purchasing power of money rises.

d)

Prices slowly decline.

25.

The production of capital goods.

a)

capital formation

b)

supply

c)

producer

d)

human capital

26.

Accumulated knowledge and skills of human beings.

a)

human capital

b)

capital formation

c)

competition

d)

labor

27.

The human effort expended to produce goods and services.

a)

labor

b)

human capital

c)

capital formation

d)

supply

28.

Anyone who creates a utility.

a)

producer

b)

labor

c)

competition

d)

economic system

29.

The existence of only one seller of a product.

a)

monopoly

b)

supply

c)

producer

d)

demand

30.

The way that a country decides how to use its productive resources.

a)

economic system

b)

capital formation

c)

supply

d)

producer

31.

The number of products that will be bought at a given time at a given price.

a)

demand

b)

supply

c)

CPI

d)

labor

32.

The number of like products that will be offered for sale at a particular time at a particular price.

a)

supply

b)

demand

c)

monopoly

d)

production

33.

Rivalry among sellers for consumers' dollars.

a)

competition

b)

supply

c)

capital formation

d)

demand

34.

A measure of the average change in prices of consumer goods and services.

a)

CPI

b)

human capital

c)

capital formation

d)

labor