SS3 Mock Examinations
  • 1. What is the fundamental economic problem?
A) Poverty
B) Inflation
C) Scarcity
D) Unemployment
  • 2. Which economic system is characterized by private ownership?
A) Command
B) Capitalist
C) Socialist
D) Mixed
  • 3. What type of market structure has many buyers and sellers?
A) Oligopoly
B) Perfect Competition
C) Monopoly
D) Monopsony
  • 4. What is the purpose of fiscal policy?
A) To control inflation
B) To promote economic growth
C) All of the above
D) To reduce unemployment
  • 5. A Minimum price legislation is also called
A) Price Ceiling
B) Price mechanism
C) Price control
D) Price floor
  • 6. Which of the following factors is not a cause of change in demand? Changes in
A) the size of the population
B) income distribution
C) price of the commodity
D) taste and fashion
  • 7. If the quantity demanded of a commodity increases from 20 units to 30 units when there is an increase in price from $4.00 to $5.00, the elasticity of demand is
A) 2.00
B) 2.50
C) 0.65
D) 0.50
  • 8. The use of the bank rate, cash ratio and open market operations constitute
A) fiscal policy
B) export policy
C) import policy
D) monetary policy
  • 9. Scale of Preference shows
A) consumer’s wants in order of priority
B) opportunity cost of goods consumed
C) Incomes of consumer in order of size
D) utilities enjoyed by consumers
  • 10. Gross National Product (GNP) less the provision for the wear and tear of assets is the
A) net national product
B) net factor income
C) net present value
D) net indirect taxes
  • 11. In perfectly elastic supply, the supply curve
A) Is Horizontal
B) Is Vertical
C) Slopes downward
D) Slopes upward
  • 12. An example of transfer payments in national income accounting is
A) transfer of funds from one bank to another
B) money transferred to another country
C) the amount paid to a worker on transfer
D) unemployment allowance paid to the citizens
  • 13. Which of the following industries will add more value to primary products?
A) Mining industry
B) Processing industry
C) Construction industry
D) Service industry
  • 14. A consumer of a single commodity is in equilibrium when
A) he equates marginal utility and price
B) he can equate his demand with price
C) he can equate his marginal and total utilities
D) his marginal utility is equal to zero
  • 15. Foreign investment and long term securities in the balance of payment accounts are recorded as
A) balance of trade account transaction
B) capital account transaction
C) invisible balance account transaction
D) current account transaction
  • 16. A benefit that is present in all forms of economic integration is that
A) the size of the market is widened
B) factors of production are free to move and be moved
C) common currency is in use
D) common agricultural policy is in place
  • 17. Points within a Production Possibilities Curve (PPC) indicate
A) optimum production levels.
B) attainable and efficient production levels.
C) attainable but inefficient production levels.
D) unattainable production levels.
  • 18. Which of the following is not a feature of labour?
A) it’s efficiency depends on its size
B) it is highly mobile
C) it is an active factor
D) it’s reward is wages and salaries
  • 19. The pursuit of private profits is a feature of
A) command economies
B) statutory corporations
C) socialist economies
D) capitalist economies
  • 20. A major feature of the socialist economic system is
A) private ownership of productive inputs.
B) freedom of choice for consumers.
C) determination of price by market forces.
D) setting of production targets by public authorities.
  • 21. If the budget on education is $50 m out of an annual national budget of $300 m. The sector of a pie chart representing education is
A) 60°
B) 16.6°
C) 150°
D) 300°
  • 22. Price elasticity of demand is the responsiveness of quantity demanded to a change in
A) demand for the product
B) price of another product
C) income of the buyer
D) price of the product
  • 23. When total revenue increases as price falls, the coefficient of price elasticity of demand is
A) zero
B) one
C) less than one
D) greater than one
  • 24. If the quantity demanded of rice de- creased from 150 bags to 100 bags, the percentage change in quantity demanded is
A) 65%
B) 33.3%
C) 80%
D) 30%
  • 25. The law of demand will not hold when
A) size of the population changes
B) normal goods are involved
C) income and consumers increase
D) rare commodities are involved
  • 26. The diagram above shows the demand for milk. Use it to answer questions this question.



    The movement from point x to z might have been caused by
A) a favorable weather condition
B) a decrease in the price of milk
C) an increase in income of consumers
D) a change in taste in favour of milk
  • 27. The diagram above shows the demand for milk. Use it to answer this question.

    If demand for postal services decline as a result of increased use of e-mails, then the two services are in
A) competitive demand
B) derived demand
C) composite demand
D) complementary demand
  • 28. Other things being equal, an increase in the demand for land in the short-run will cause an increase in the
A) price and supply
B) quantity supplied only
C) price only
D) supply only
  • 29. If the coefficient of price elasticity of supply of a commodity is 0.8, then supply is
A) perfectly inelastic
B) fairly elastic
C) perfectly elastic
D) fairly inelastic
  • 30. The negative slope of the demand curve is best explained by
A) diminishing returns to scale
B) increasing return to scale
C) consumer’s choice
D) diminishing marginal utility
  • 31. Minimum price legislation is used to protect the interests of
A) foreign companies
B) small scale producers
C) government
D) consumers
  • 32. Which of the following best explains diseconomies of scale? Increase in output causes the
A) marginal cost to fall
B) firm to be de-stabilized
C) average cost to rise
D) marginal revenue to fall
  • 33. In the short-run, a firm can increase output by
A) increasing the size of its machines
B) changing its organizational structure
C) purchasing more equipments
D) increasing the quantity of raw materials
  • 34. The fixed cost of producing 100 units of a good is $600. If the variable cost is $400. the average total cost of one unit of the good is
A) $10
B) $4
C) $8
D) $15
  • 35. Firms in perfect competition break even in the long-run because
A) profits are not enough to repay traders' loans.
B) new firms can not enter the market due to copyright laws.
C) marginal revenue is greater than marginal cost at all levels.
D) more firms can enter the industry due to attractive prof its.
  • 36. The government policy that encourages public corporations to operate profitably is
A) indigenization
B) commercialization
C) liberalization
D) nationalization
  • 37. Warehousing of goods in the process of distribution is the function of
A) departmental stores
B) wholesalers
C) retailers
D) supermarkets
  • 38. The supply of labour to an occupation will tend to rise when
A) unemployment benefit rises
B) there are less monetary benefits
C) welfare packages improve
D) holiday entitlement is cut
  • 39. In determining the growth of a country's population, infant mortality is a component of
A) immigration rate
B) fertility rate
C) death rate
D) net migration
  • 40. The low productivity per worker in agriculture experienced in West African countries is due to
A) the presence of many extension workers
B) laziness on the part of farmers
C) the use of simple traditional implements
D) the law of increasing returns to scale
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