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