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Free enterprise government and free enterprise

Total questions: 40

Worksheet time: 21mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

This is another name for capitalism

a)

Free Contract

b)

Free Enterprise

c)

Infrastructure

d)

Legal Equality

2.

What is the name of the force that encourages people and organizations to improve their material well-being from economic activities?

a)

Market Failure

b)

Profit Motive

c)

Positive Externality

d)

Free Rider

3.

What occurs when people who do not take part within an economic transaction benefit from it?

a)

Negative Externality

b)

A Modified Free Enterprise Comes into Play

c)

Market Failure

d)

Wellfare is revoked

4.

What is a subsidy?

a)

A government payment that helps cover the cost of an economic activity

b)

A payment in which the government transfers income from taxpayers to recipients who do not provide anything in return

c)

A product that is provided by a federal, state, and/or a local government and consumed by the public

d)

A government program designed to protect people from economic hardships

5.

What is an example of a negative externality?

a)

Fewer Oil Rigs

b)

Industrial Pollution

c)

Less Toxic Waste

d)

Smaller buildings

6.

A system to protect people experiencing unfavorable economic conditions

a)

innovation

b)

standard of living

c)

safety net

d)

profit

7.

Which is NOT an example of a public good?

a)

police, fire, and ambulance services

b)

an amusement park like Disney Land

c)

public parks, sidewalks, roads

d)

schools and libraries

8.

The ability to decide for yourself which legal agreements you will enter into is called

a)

a. profit motive

b)

b. open opportunity

c)

c. legal equality

d)

d. free contract

9.

Government programs designed to protect people from economic hardships

a)

a. infrastructure

b)

b. externality

c)

c. safety net

d)

d. public goods

e)

e. subsidy

10.

Point B represents

a)

Product Market

b)

Factor Market

c)

Individuals

d)

Businesses

11.

What does point A represent on the Circular flow diagram?

a)

Households

b)

Businesses

c)

Factor Market

d)

Product Market

12.

A person stocks shelves at a grocery store and receives a wage. They have completed an exchange in which part of the circular flow model?

a)

Individuals

b)

Businesss

c)

Factor Market

d)

Product Market

13.

Someone buys a car in exchange for a large amount of money. They have completed an exchange in which part of the circuclar flow model?

a)

Product Market

b)

Factor Market

c)

Firms

d)

Individuals

14.

Money exchanged between businesses and individuals for labor.

a)

wages

b)

revenue

c)

spending

d)

profit

15.
What do households provide to the resource market?
a)
land, labor, capital 
b)
money
c)
people
d)
income
16.

Health care left to the free-market (left to privately owned businesses to provide)

a)

Capitalism

b)

Socialism

c)

Communism

17.

United States is most like what type of economic system?

a)

Capitalism

b)

Socialism

c)

Communism

18.

The United States is best described as an example of a(n)...

a)

pure capitalist economy

b)

mixed-market economy

c)

socialist economy

d)

communist economy

19.

What makes a Free Enterprise system Capitalist in nature

a)

Anyone is free to start a business or enterprise

b)

Everyone makes the same amount of money

c)

Everyone must own a business

d)

There is extreme government intervention

20.

What is the ability of everyone to take part in the market by free choice?

a)

Legal Equality

b)

Free Contract

c)

Profit Motive

d)

Open Opportunity

21.

What is another name for "a situation in which everyone has the same economic rights under the law"?

a)

Positive Externality

b)

Negative Externality

c)

Legal Equality

d)

Open Opportunity

22.

What occurs when people who do not take part within an economic transaction benefit from it?

a)

Negative Externality

b)

A Modified Free Enterprise Comes into Play

c)

Market Failure

d)

Wellfare is revoked

23.

What is infrastructure?

a)

Consists of all the goods and services that are necessary for the functioning of society

b)

Consists of all the government funding of goods and services for the poorer consumers

c)

Consists of all the taxes that are used to pay for public transfer payments

d)

Consists of all the goods and services that are extra within the functioning of society

24.

What is the side effect of products and/or services that affect someone other than the producer or buyer?

a)

Profit

b)

Infrastructure

c)

Subsidy

d)

Externality

25.

What is a subsidy?

a)

A government payment that helps cover the cost of an economic activity

b)

A payment in which the government transfers income from taxpayers to recipients who do not provide anything in return

c)

A product that is provided by a federal, state, and/or a local government and consumed by the public

d)

A government program designed to protect people from economic hardships

26.

What is an example of a free rider?

a)

A grandmother giving money to her graduating grandchild

b)

Someone watching a fireworks display

c)

Somebody splitting a hotel bill down the middle with another person

d)

A child purchasing a powerup on Subway Surfers

27.

Why do producers enter a Free Enterprise Economy?

a)

To make products

b)

To seek profit

c)

To provide income to lower class consumers

d)

To create services for people

28.

What is a person who benefits from economic transactions they are not a part of?

a)

Economist

b)

Entrepreneur

c)

Externality

d)

Free Rider

29.
A shared good/service that government builds because it would be impractical for an individual 
a)
private good
b)
public good
c)
military good
d)
market failure
30.

People & Business can buy & sell their property as well as ban others from using it

a)

Economic Freedom

b)

Private Property

c)

Competition

d)

Self-Interest

31.

Airbus receives ____ from government

a)

subsidy

b)

transfer payments

32.

The role of the government is to impose ______ penalty on violators to prevent negative externalities.

a)

taxes

b)

penalties

33.

government is ___ in product and resource markets

a)

producer

b)

consumer

34.

Government receives from individuals and business

a)

taxes

b)

revenue

35.

Government purchases mostly ___ in the resource market.

a)

labor

b)

land

c)

capital

36.

Money received from relatives

a)

transfer payment

b)

public transfer payment

37.

Properties of public good

a)

no one can be excluded

b)

usage by one person does not decrease its value for others

c)

funded by taxpayers

d)

provided by private business

38.

Person who bought a ticket to watch fireworks is a free rider

a)

yes

b)

no

39.

Infrastructure includes

a)

trains

b)

buses

c)

hospitals

d)

sea ports

40.

Governmental payments to poor to improve their wellbeing

a)

welfare

b)

donation