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PPSC Economics Chapter 1 Basic Economics MCQs With Answers
Question # 1
Less Developed countries lend to have
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A high average age
A slow population growth rate
High life expectancy
A low literacy rate
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Question # 2
A cut in the tax rate designed to reduce the business investment is an example of.
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Expansionary demand side policy
Contractionary demand side policy
Expansionary supply side policy
Contractionary supply side policy
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Question # 3
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 # 4
In marketing "USP " Stand for
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Unique selling proposition
Underlying sales pitch
Unit sales point
Under sales procedure
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Question # 5
Aggregate demand will increase if
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Consumption falls
Investment falls
Exports fall
imports fall
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Question # 6
Developing economics usually have
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Low GDP per captia
Low CPI
Large balance of payments surpluses
Large budget surpluses
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Question # 7
Demand pull inflation may be caused by
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An increase in costs
A reduction in interest rate
A reduction in government spending
An outward shift in aggregate supply
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Question # 8
With a positive externality
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There is under consumption in the free market
There is over consumption in the free market
The government may tax to decrease production
Society could be made off if less was produced
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Question # 9
The best describes consumer surplus.
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The price consumers are willing to pay for a unit
The cost of providing a unit.
The profits made by a firm
The difference the price a consumer pays for an item and the price he is willing to pay.
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Question # 10
There are three fundamental questions every society must answer Which of the following is one of these questions.
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What goods and services are to be produced.
How are the good and services to be produced.
Who will get the goods and services what are produced.
All of the above
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Question # 11
Why does it make sense in assume that people are rational, if you want to predict their behavior.
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People are not guided by emotions when making decisions
People wheo act in the way that best gets them what they want will tend to repeat that behavior, and will tend to learn from mistakes that they do make
People never make mistakes, and tend to make the correct choices all of the time
People always logically figure out what to do.
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Question # 12
The marginal revenue curve in monopoly
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Equals the demand curve
Is a parallel with the demand curve
Lies below and converges with the demand curve
Lies below and diverges from the demeaned curve
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Question # 13
Which of the following is not a supply side measure.
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Increased training
Providing more information
Helping individuals to move location to find work
Increasing spending on existing industries.
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Question # 14
Profit making is basic motive in.
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Socialism
Mixed economy
Communism
Capitalism
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Question # 15
An increase income will
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Lead to a movement along the demand curve
Shift the supply curve
Shift the demand curve
Lead to an extension of demand
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Question # 16
If firms join together to set prices and quantities this is known as what.
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Interaction
Conglomerate
Collusion
Integration
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Question # 17
A benefit to consumers of price discrimination is that
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Some products are produced that would not other wise be produced
Producer surplus increases
Consumer surplus decreases
Firms profits increase
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Question # 18
Firms in perfect competition face a
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Perfectly elastic demand curve
Perfectly inelastic demand curve
Perfectly elastic supply curve
Perfectly inelastic supply curve
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Question # 19
When internal economics of scale occur
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Total costs fall
Marginal costs increase
Average costs fall
Revenue falls
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Question # 20
Which of the following is a possible government objective as opposed to a policy.
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Lower interest rates
Lower taxation rates
Lower government spending
Lower inflection
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Question # 21
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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