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