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PPSC Economics Chapter 1 Basic Economics MCQs With Answers
Question # 1
Market is called father of economics
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Marshall
Robbins
Keynes
Friedman
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Question # 2
When an economy first begins to frow more slowly.
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GDP increase
Inflation is likely to increase
Stock levels are likely to increse
Investment in equipment is likely to increase
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Question # 3
Which of the following best describes the selling of a production license to another firm.
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Hands over all rights to its products
Sells its products abroad
Sells the right to produce to another business
Sells the business to another business
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Question # 4
Economics growth can be seen by an outward shift of.
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The production possibility frontier
The gross domestic barrier
The marginal consumption frontier
The Minimum Efficient scale
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Question # 5
An increase in productivity should.
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Lead to a contraction of supply
Lead to an expansion of supply
Lead to a shift in supply outwards
Lead to higher equilibrium and lower equilibrium quantity.
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Question # 6
Which of the following is the government most likely to subsidies.
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Negative externalities
Positive externalities
Monopolies
O ligopojies
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Question # 7
Human wants are
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Always fixed
Limited
Unlimited
Likely to decrease over time
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Question # 8
The socially optimal rate of growth is
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Zero
Negative
Where the marginal social benefit the marginal social cost
total social costs are minimized
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Question # 9
Capital, as economists use the term.
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Is the money the firm spends to hire resources
Is money the firm raises from selling stock
Refers to the process by which resources are transformed into useful forms
Refers to things that have already been produced that are in turn used to produce other goods and services.
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Question # 10
The concept of "Interdependence of markets" can refer to the interdependence between.
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Two or more factor markets
Goods and factor markets
Goods markets
All of the above
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Question # 11
The free market involves
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The free provision of products
The subsidizing of products by the government
Market forces of supply and demand
All trade via barter
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Question # 12
A scarce good.
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Does not exist
Is a good that can only be purchased with money
Is a good that can never be purchased with money
Is a good that is available in limited quantities, but is desired in greater quantities.
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Question # 13
Acquisition and merger are examples of.
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Internal growth
External growth
Organic growth
Underlying growth
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Question # 14
GDP plus net property income from aboard equals what.
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GNP
NNP
Depreciation
Real GDP
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Question # 15
In perfect competation.
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The price equals the marginal revenue
The price equals the average variable cost
The fixed cost equals the variable costs
The price equals the total costs
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Question # 16
If marginal utility is zero.
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Total utility is zero
An additional unit of consumption will decrease total utility
An additional unit of consumption will increase total utility
Total utility is maximized
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Question # 17
For perfectly competitive firm
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Price equals marginal revenue
Price is greater than marginal revenus
Price equal total revenue
Price equals total cost
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Question # 18
In order to maximize profits a monopoly company will produce that quantity at which the.
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Marginal revenue equals average total cost
Price equals marginal revenue
Marginal revenue equals marginal cost
total revenue equals total cost
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Question # 19
If one car company takes over another car company this is an example of which type of integration.
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Vertical
Horizontal
Conglomerate
Literal
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Question # 20
Which of the following is true.
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If the marginal cost is greater than the average cost the average cost fallls.
If the marginal cost is greater than the average cost the average cost increases.
If the marginal cost is positive total costs are maximized
If the marginal cost is negatives total costs increase at a decreasing rate if output increases
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Question # 21
A welfare less occurs in monopoly where
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The price in greater than the marginal cost
The price is greater than the marginal benefit
The price is greater than the average revenue
Has the right to investigate monopolies and will assess each one on its own mertis
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