WorksheetsFi$h Economics Review
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
People are poor insofar as they lack what they need and want; they are wealthy insofar as they have or can acquire what they need and what.
a)
True
b)
False
2.
The costs of conducting an exchange are called the ______ costs.
a)
transaction
b)
intermediary
c)
transportation
3.
__ is the proposition that, all else remaining equal, as the price of a good increases,quantity supplied tends to increase, and vice versa.
a)
Law of Supply
b)
Law of Demand
c)
Law of Diminishing Marginal Utility
4.
The fact that, other things equal, people tend to prefer to consume goods and services immediately than to wait to consume them in the future, everything else remaining equal.
a)
Time preference
b)
Risk premium
c)
Subjective discount rate
5.
__ is the transformative power of a human's mental and physical energy that can be employed to alter one's environment.
a)
Investment
b)
Labor
c)
Capital
6.
__ is using savings to create capital in an attempt to generate even more value in the future.
a)
Investment
b)
Profit
c)
Saving
7.
People choosing various jobs and careers in a society is an example of the
a)
division of labor.
b)
theory of trade.
c)
law of comparative advantage.
8.
The ability to obtain goods or services before payment, based on one’s reputation and the trust that payment will be made in the future.
a)
Credit
b)
Interest
c)
Capital
9.
The difference between what a person produces and what a person consumes.
a)
Savings
b)
Investment
c)
Interest
10.
Someone who contributes his or her creative talent, vision, and intelligence to direct the overall use of resources in a productive project.
a)
Entrepreneur
b)
Investor
c)
Creditor
11.
___ the additional value, satisfaction, or benefit a consumer gains from possessing or using an additional amount of a good or service.
a)
Marginal
b)
Marginal Utility
c)
Marginal Cost
12.
__ the theory or practice of shielding one or more of a country's domestic industries from foreign competition by means of government imposed restrictions on trade.
a)
Protectionism
b)
Creative Destruction
c)
Protective Tariff
13.
According to the book "Economics in One Lesson", a bad economist
a)
sees only what immediately strikes the eye
b)
looks at the longer and indirect consequences
c)
inquires what the effect of the policy will be on all groups
14.
______ is when you buy something cheap in one location in order to sell it at a different location where it can have a bigger profit.
a)
Arbitrage
b)
Speculation
c)
Intermediary
15.
Money is merely a medium by which we exchange present goods and services with one another, and a loan is merely an agreement by which we exchange present goods and services for future ones.
a)
True
b)
False
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