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A. Land B. Land
C. Goods D. Capital
2. These are basic needs and not simply related items or complimentary goods that compliment man’s basic needs in
society.
A. Bags and shoes B. Clothing
C. Electricity D. Food and shelter
3. Economics studies and seeks to allocate ______ human and non-human resources for the material welfare of all.
A. Scarce B. Abundant
C. Bountiful D. Unlimited
4. Which prescribe the abolition of private property by force?
A. Exaggerated capitalism
B. Socialism
C. Communism
D. Moderate capitalism
5. Which of the following is an example of capital as a factor of production?
A. The factory plant of general manufacturing company
B. Money held by general manufacturing company
C. A general manufacturing bond
D. All of the above
6. The reality that a decline in the price of a product causes the producers to lessen the quantity of the good they plan to
produce illustrates:
A. a change in supply
B. the law of supply
C. the nature of an inferior good
D. the law of demand
7. When the government chooses to use resources to build highways, those resources are no longer available to build
school. This illustrates the concept of
A. optimization
B. microeconomics
C. macroeconomics
D. opportunity cost
8. Economics is concerned with
A. man’s choice of living
B. wealth-getting and wealth using
C. the allocation of scarce resources
D. all of the above
9. The term ECONOMICS is most closely related with
A. Free B. Scarce
C. Restricted D. Unlimited
10. Microeconomics best describes the study of the:
A. Level of national unemployment
B. Effects of aggregate inflation
C. Growth rate of GNP
D. Behaviour of individual economic agents
19. What do you call the trade in which people exchange goods without using money?
A. mercantilism B. barter
C. capitalism D. Marxism
20. Which of the following is an example of a real flow from household to firms?
A. Factors of production
B. goods and services
C. income from factors of production
D. payment for factors of production
21. It refers to the tangible, physical good that a person or society creates in the expectation that its use will improve or
increase future production.
A. rent B. capital
C. interest D. labor
22. A condition where quantity demanded is greater than quantity supplied.
A. shortage B. surplus
C. market equilibrium D. economic value
23. Which of the following is NOT one of the component factors that make the flow of production possible?
A. Land B. Land
C. Capital D. Capitalism
24. Goods that are used in conjunction with other goods. An increase in price of one lowers the quality demanded of the
others.
A. normal goods
B. inferior goods
C. substitute goods
D. Complementary goods
25. It means that people are combining the other there factors of production to create some products or services to sell.
A. Entrepreneurship B. Capital
C. Land D. Labor
26. An economic system where economic decisions are made in a decentralized manner by economy’s participants and
manifested by trade.
A. Command Economy
B. Market Economy
C. Traditional Economy
D. Pure competition
27. The transformation of inputs to outputs is called_____.
A. Consumption B. Exchange
C. Production D. Distribution
28. The maximum price of goods and services set by government as a form of price control.
A. Supply schedule B. price control
C. price ceiling D. price floor
29. An economic system in which economic decisions are made with great influence from the past.
A. Traditional Economy
B. Command Economy
C. Market Economy
D. Socialism
30. Which of the following statement regarding the Law of Supply is true?
A. The quantity supplied is determined by price and other factor
B. The quantity supplied increases as prices decreases
C. The quantity supplied increases as price increases
D. All of the above
31. A table that shows how consumers behave in terms of quantity demanded in relation to price is called a demand
______, while the graph is called_____.
A. Slope; curve
B. Schedule; curve
C. curve; slope
D. schedule; slope
32. Which problem of resources falls under the task of economic allocation?
A. quality B. scarcity
C. standards D. excellence
33. How is the concept of market economy best understood?
A. Companies have an economic vision
B. Producers look at consumers on signals for what to sell
C. Owners care about products, not consumers
D. Parent company dictates consumption
34. The following are the elements that make possible nations to produce goods and services EXCEPT one:
A. labor force B. capital
C. national resources D. geographical locations
35. Which economic system is otherwise known as free enterprise?
A. Capitalism B. Communism
C. mixed economies D. totalitarianism
36. In a communist country, the following holds true EXCEPT ________.
A. Productive resources are owned by government
B. The citizens vote on some economic policies
C. The government determines what shall be produced an in what quantity
D. The government sets wages and prices
37. These are the best ways we can deal with scarcity of resources EXCEPT _____.
A. Making right choices in capital goods
B. Keeping resources as unused reserve
C. Using resources efficiently
D. Distributing resources equitably
38. The equilibrium point in an economic graph means
A. stable B. changeable
C. equal D. none of the above
39. Which of the following is not the concern of Microeconomics?
A. Decisions of individual units
B. Economic issues affecting the national economy
C. Price determination in various type of market
D. Social welfare
40. The quantity of good that buyers are willing to buy:
A. demand
B. demand schedules
C. demand function
D. demand curve