SS3 Mock Examinations
  • 1. What is the fundamental economic problem?
A) Scarcity
B) Inflation
C) Poverty
D) Unemployment
  • 2. Which economic system is characterized by private ownership?
A) Socialist
B) Capitalist
C) Command
D) Mixed
  • 3. What type of market structure has many buyers and sellers?
A) Perfect Competition
B) Oligopoly
C) Monopsony
D) Monopoly
  • 4. What is the purpose of fiscal policy?
A) To reduce unemployment
B) To control inflation
C) All of the above
D) To promote economic growth
  • 5. A Minimum price legislation is also called
A) Price floor
B) Price mechanism
C) Price Ceiling
D) Price control
  • 6. Which of the following factors is not a cause of change in demand? Changes in
A) price of the commodity
B) income distribution
C) taste and fashion
D) the size of the population
  • 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) 2.00
D) 2.50
  • 8. The use of the bank rate, cash ratio and open market operations constitute
A) monetary policy
B) fiscal policy
C) export policy
D) import policy
  • 9. Scale of Preference shows
A) utilities enjoyed by consumers
B) consumer’s wants in order of priority
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 present value
B) net national product
C) net indirect taxes
D) net factor income
  • 11. In perfectly elastic supply, the supply curve
A) Is Vertical
B) Slopes upward
C) Is Horizontal
D) Slopes downward
  • 12. An example of transfer payments in national income accounting is
A) the amount paid to a worker on transfer
B) money transferred to another country
C) unemployment allowance paid to the citizens
D) transfer of funds from one bank to another
  • 13. Which of the following industries will add more value to primary products?
A) Service industry
B) Mining industry
C) Processing industry
D) Construction 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) current account transaction
B) invisible balance account transaction
C) capital account transaction
D) balance of trade account transaction
  • 16. A benefit that is present in all forms of economic integration is that
A) common currency is in use
B) factors of production are free to move and be moved
C) the size of the market is widened
D) common agricultural policy is in place
  • 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’s efficiency depends on its size
D) it is an active factor
  • 19. The pursuit of private profits is a feature of
A) capitalist economies
B) socialist economies
C) command economies
D) statutory corporations
  • 20. A major feature of the socialist economic system is
A) determination of price by market forces.
B) setting of production targets by public authorities.
C) private ownership of productive inputs.
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) 300°
B) 60°
C) 150°
D) 16.6°
  • 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) greater than one
C) 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) 65%
C) 30%
D) 80%
  • 25. The law of demand will not hold when
A) income and consumers increase
B) normal goods are involved
C) size of the population changes
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 change in taste in favour of milk
D) a decrease in the price 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) complementary demand
B) competitive demand
C) composite 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) quantity supplied only
B) supply only
C) price only
D) price and supply
  • 29. If the coefficient of price elasticity of supply of a commodity is 0.8, then supply is
A) fairly inelastic
B) perfectly elastic
C) perfectly inelastic
D) fairly elastic
  • 30. The negative slope of the demand curve is best explained by
A) diminishing returns to scale
B) consumer’s choice
C) diminishing marginal utility
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) marginal revenue to fall
B) average cost to rise
C) marginal cost to fall
D) firm to be de-stabilized
  • 33. In the short-run, a firm can increase output by
A) increasing the size of its machines
B) purchasing more equipments
C) increasing the quantity of raw materials
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) $8
C) $4
D) $15
  • 35. Firms in perfect competition break even in the long-run because
A) profits are not enough to repay traders' loans.
B) marginal revenue is greater than marginal cost at all levels.
C) more firms can enter the industry due to attractive prof its.
D) new firms can not enter the market due to copyright laws.
  • 36. The government policy that encourages public corporations to operate profitably is
A) nationalization
B) indigenization
C) liberalization
D) commercialization
  • 37. Warehousing of goods in the process of distribution is the function of
A) departmental stores
B) supermarkets
C) wholesalers
D) retailers
  • 38. The supply of labour to an occupation will tend to rise when
A) unemployment benefit rises
B) there are less monetary benefits
C) holiday entitlement is cut
D) welfare packages improve
  • 39. In determining the growth of a country's population, infant mortality is a component of
A) fertility rate
B) death rate
C) immigration rate
D) net migration
  • 40. The low productivity per worker in agriculture experienced in West African countries is due to
A) the law of increasing returns to scale
B) the use of simple traditional implements
C) laziness on the part of farmers
D) the presence of many extension workers
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