SS3 Mock Examinations
  • 1. What is the fundamental economic problem?
A) Poverty
B) Scarcity
C) Unemployment
D) Inflation
  • 2. Which economic system is characterized by private ownership?
A) Capitalist
B) Command
C) Socialist
D) Mixed
  • 3. What type of market structure has many buyers and sellers?
A) Oligopoly
B) Monopsony
C) Monopoly
D) Perfect Competition
  • 4. What is the purpose of fiscal policy?
A) All of the above
B) To reduce unemployment
C) To control inflation
D) To promote economic growth
  • 5. A Minimum price legislation is also called
A) Price Ceiling
B) Price control
C) Price mechanism
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) price of the commodity
C) income distribution
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) 0.65
B) 2.50
C) 2.00
D) 0.50
  • 8. The use of the bank rate, cash ratio and open market operations constitute
A) export policy
B) import policy
C) fiscal policy
D) monetary policy
  • 9. Scale of Preference shows
A) utilities enjoyed by consumers
B) opportunity cost of goods consumed
C) Incomes of consumer in order of size
D) consumer’s wants in order of priority
  • 10. Gross National Product (GNP) less the provision for the wear and tear of assets is the
A) net present value
B) net indirect taxes
C) net factor income
D) net national product
  • 11. In perfectly elastic supply, the supply curve
A) Slopes upward
B) Slopes downward
C) Is Vertical
D) Is Horizontal
  • 12. An example of transfer payments in national income accounting is
A) unemployment allowance paid to the citizens
B) the amount paid to a worker on transfer
C) transfer of funds from one bank to another
D) money transferred to another country
  • 13. Which of the following industries will add more value to primary products?
A) Processing industry
B) Mining industry
C) Construction industry
D) Service industry
  • 14. A consumer of a single commodity is in equilibrium when
A) he can equate his demand with price
B) his marginal utility is equal to zero
C) he equates marginal utility and price
D) he can equate his marginal and total utilities
  • 15. Foreign investment and long term securities in the balance of payment accounts are recorded as
A) current account transaction
B) capital account transaction
C) invisible balance account transaction
D) balance of trade 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) common agricultural policy is in place
C) common currency is in use
D) factors of production are free to move and be moved
  • 17. Points within a Production Possibilities Curve (PPC) indicate
A) optimum production levels.
B) attainable but inefficient production levels.
C) attainable and efficient production levels.
D) unattainable production levels.
  • 18. Which of the following is not a feature of labour?
A) it is highly mobile
B) it’s reward is wages and salaries
C) it’s efficiency depends on its size
D) it is an active factor
  • 19. The pursuit of private profits is a feature of
A) statutory corporations
B) socialist economies
C) command economies
D) capitalist economies
  • 20. A major feature of the socialist economic system is
A) freedom of choice for consumers.
B) determination of price by market forces.
C) setting of production targets by public authorities.
D) private ownership of productive inputs.
  • 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) 16.6°
B) 60°
C) 300°
D) 150°
  • 22. Price elasticity of demand is the responsiveness of quantity demanded to a change in
A) demand for the product
B) price of the product
C) price of another product
D) income of the buyer
  • 23. When total revenue increases as price falls, the coefficient of price elasticity of demand is
A) zero
B) one
C) greater than one
D) less 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) 33.3%
B) 30%
C) 65%
D) 80%
  • 25. The law of demand will not hold when
A) normal goods are involved
B) size of the population changes
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) an increase in income of consumers
C) a decrease in the price of milk
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) composite demand
B) complementary demand
C) derived demand
D) competitive 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) supply only
C) quantity supplied only
D) price only
  • 29. If the coefficient of price elasticity of supply of a commodity is 0.8, then supply is
A) perfectly elastic
B) perfectly inelastic
C) fairly inelastic
D) fairly elastic
  • 30. The negative slope of the demand curve is best explained by
A) consumer’s choice
B) increasing return to scale
C) diminishing marginal utility
D) diminishing returns to scale
  • 31. Minimum price legislation is used to protect the interests of
A) small scale producers
B) government
C) consumers
D) foreign companies
  • 32. Which of the following best explains diseconomies of scale? Increase in output causes the
A) average cost to rise
B) firm to be de-stabilized
C) marginal revenue to fall
D) marginal cost 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) $8
B) $4
C) $10
D) $15
  • 35. Firms in perfect competition break even in the long-run because
A) marginal revenue is greater than marginal cost at all levels.
B) profits are not enough to repay traders' loans.
C) new firms can not enter the market due to copyright laws.
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) nationalization
B) commercialization
C) indigenization
D) liberalization
  • 37. Warehousing of goods in the process of distribution is the function of
A) retailers
B) wholesalers
C) supermarkets
D) departmental stores
  • 38. The supply of labour to an occupation will tend to rise when
A) holiday entitlement is cut
B) there are less monetary benefits
C) welfare packages improve
D) unemployment benefit rises
  • 39. In determining the growth of a country's population, infant mortality is a component of
A) death rate
B) immigration rate
C) fertility rate
D) net migration
  • 40. The low productivity per worker in agriculture experienced in West African countries is due to
A) laziness on the part of farmers
B) the use of simple traditional implements
C) the presence of many extension workers
D) the law of increasing returns to scale
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