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Econ ch 1-2 review

Total questions: 18

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which economy answers the 3 questions by repeating prior experience?

a)

command

b)

free market

c)

mixed

d)

traditional

2.

The invisible hand drives the economy is which system?

a)

command

b)

free market

c)

mixed economy

d)

traditional

3.

In a socialist economic system, who owns the factors of production?

a)

the government

b)

private citizens

c)

no one

d)

businesses

4.

Which is NOT true of scarcity?

a)

scarcity forces choice

b)

scarcity can be resolved

c)

scarcity exists in all resources

d)

scarcity exists in all economic systems

5.

Which of these are factors of production?

a)

entrepreneurship

b)

land

c)

labor

d)

investment

6.

In a command economy, decisions are made by

a)

voluntary exchange

b)

central authority

c)

cost-benefit analysis

d)

opportunity cost analysis

7.

Which of these is an example of a capital resource?

a)

master plumber

b)

excavator

c)

seeds

d)

corvette

8.

Which is a modern example of command economy?

a)

Great Britain

b)

Japan

c)

Cuba

d)

South Korea

9.

Positive economics is based on

a)

whether an outcome is beneficial

b)

whether variables move in the same direction

c)

GDP statistics

d)

information that is testable

10.

The people have shared ownership of the production process and resources in which economy?

a)

socialism

b)

capitalism

c)

traditional

d)

communism

11.

What do Normative economists use?

a)

data

analysis

b)

testable

facts

c)

value

judgements

d)

score

tables

12.

Any decision may have multiple

a)

trade-offs

b)

opportunity costs

c)

results

d)

profits

13.

The price of chicken increased as the supply of meat available for purchase decreased. This is an example of

a)

positive relationship

b)

direct relationship

c)

indirect relationship

d)

inverse relationship

14.

Which is NOT a cause of economic growth?

a)

additional consumers

b)

additional resources

c)

new knowledge

d)

new technology

15.

The Employment Act of 1946 set the economic goal of full employment. Which goal was added to the Act later?

a)

zero inflation

b)

expanded employment for teens

c)

stable prices

d)

Social Security benefits

16.

The production possibilities curve relies on which assumptions?

a)

labor and capital change but land remains fixed

b)

that technology is assumed to be fixed

c)

that land and labor are increasing but that capital remains fixed

d)

that land, labor, and capital are all increasing

17.

How does the production possibilities curve shift when economic growth occurs?

a)

curve moves inward

b)

curve moves outward

c)

curve moves upward

d)

curve moves downward

18.

The decision about how much more or less to do us called:

a)

net benefit

b)

marginal benefit

c)

cost analysis

d)

marginal analysis