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Exam_Economics_Question_SS1
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  • 1. The study of how people make choices in the use of scarce resources is known as
A) sociology
B) economics
C) geography
D) political science
  • 2. Economics is best defined as the study of
A) human behaviour as a relationship between ends and scarce means
B) how to make profit
C) money and banking
D) the production of goods only
  • 3. Who is regarded as the father of modern economics?
A) John Keynes
B) Adam Smith
C) Karl Marx
D) David Ricardo
  • 4. The central concept in economics is
A) money
B) demand
C) utility
D) scarcity
  • 5. The branch of economics that studies the whole economy is
A) political economics
B) business economics
C) macro-economics
D) micro-economics
  • 6. The term 'choice' in economics arises because
A) goods are abundant
B) wants are limited
C) people are greedy
D) resources are scarce
  • 7. Which of these best describes opportunity cost?
A) The total benefit gained
B) The next best alternative forgone
C) The amount of money spent
D) cost of production
  • 8. Wants are said to be unlimited because
A) man's resources are few
B) governments are corrupt
C) money is scarce
D) new wants keep arising
  • 9. The economic problem of scarcity means
A) consumers are rich
B) there too many goods
C) there are not enough resources to satisfy wants
D) prices are always high
  • 10. The study of economics helps individuals to
A) spend carelessly
B) ignore opportunity costs
C) make rational decisions
D) waste resources
  • 11. Government studies economics mainly to
A) increase corruption
B) formulate good policies
C) raise salaries
D) exploit the poor
  • 12. Economics contributes to national development by
A) Helping efficient resource use
B) increasing inequality
C) encouraging waste
D) discouraging production
  • 13. Knowledge of economics helps a consumer to
A) make wise spending decisions
B) avoid saving
C) buy more than needed
D) waste resources
  • 14. Economist help businesses by
A) increasing wages automatically
B) producing advertisments
C) determining market trends
D) printing money
  • 15. The basic economic problems arise because
A) governments are weak
B) population is high
C) wants are unlimited and resources are limited
D) prices are low
  • 16. 'What to produce' refers to
A) choice of techniques
B) type of goods to produce
C) cost of production
D) location of production
  • 17. 'How to produce' refers to
A) who will consume the goods
B) the method or technique of production
C) the total output
D) the time of production
  • 18. 'For whom to produce' means
A) determining the cost
B) choosing who gets the goods and services
C) deciding what to export
D) hiring workers
  • 19. Which of the following helps solve the basic economic problems?
A) Trade unions
B) Choice
C) Inflation
D) Scarcity
  • 20. Production in economics means
A) selling goods at a market
B) manufacturing only
C) creating goods and services to satisfy human wants
D) buying and storing
  • 21. The major aim of production is to
A) increase population
B) create employment
C) satisfy human wants
D) reduce exports
  • 22. The process that changes raw-materials into finished goods is called
A) distribution
B) consumption
C) exchange
D) manufacturing
  • 23. Primary production involves
A) transport and trade
B) mining, farming and fishing
C) advertising
D) banking and insurance
  • 24. Secondary production includes
A) teaching
B) banking
C) manufacturing
D) farming
  • 25. Tertiary production involves
A) mining
B) service industries
C) manufacturing
D) construction
  • 26. When goods are moved from factory to consumers, this is
A) exchange
B) distribution
C) consumption
D) production
  • 27. Which of these is a form of indirect production?
A) Building your own house
B) Washing your own clothes
C) Tailor sewing for pay
D) self-cooking
  • 28. The reward for the successful organization of production is
A) wage
B) rent
C) interest
D) profit
  • 29. How many major factors of production are there?
A) Two
B) Five
C) Three
D) Four
  • 30. The reward for land is
A) Rent
B) profit
C) interest
D) wage
  • 31. Land as a factor of production refers to
A) capital
B) all natural resources used in production
C) soil only
D) buildings and machines
  • 32. Labour refers to
A) all human efforts used in production
B) machines
C) buildings
D) land
  • 33. The reward for labour is
A) interest
B) rent
C) wage
D) profit
  • 34. Capital is important in production because it
A) causes scarcity
B) increases efficiency
C) reduces unemployment
D) decreases output
  • 35. The entrepreneur is responsible for
A) organizing and managing the factors of production
B) earning rent
C) providing only labour
D) making government policies
  • 36. The reward for the entrepreneur is
A) interest
B) rent
C) wage
D) profit
  • 37. Which of the following IS NOT a reward of any factor of production?
A) Rent
B) Profit
C) Interest
D) Subsidy
  • 38. In the study of economics land, labour, capital and entrepreneur are referred to as factors of production. These factors produce commodities only if they are
A) combined in the production process
B) purchased for the purpose of production
C) brought into the factory
D) profitable to the production process
  • 39. Production resources can also be called
A) primary productive
B) items of production
C) labour and material resources
D) factors of production
  • 40. Economics is founded on the principle that
A) human needs are easy to define
B) human wants are limitless while the means to satisfy them are limited
C) human wants are more than human wants
D) material things are more than human wants
  • 41. An example of circulating capital used by an entrepreneur is
A) raw materials
B) pipe-borne water
C) electric power
D) factory building
  • 42. Immobility of land in the geographical sense is applicable ONLY to
A) vegetation and it's products
B) all natural resources
C) land as the earth surface
D) fishes in water bodies
  • 43. Which of the following factors of production is the most mobile?
A) Capital
B) Land
C) Labour
D) Entrepreneur
  • 44. The act of combining factor inputs in order to obtain specific output is known as
A) industrialization
B) factor procurement
C) manufacturing
D) production
  • 45. Capital as a factor of production is important because
A) it provides money which is essential for the growth of business
B) it enables us to carry out tasks which cannot be done by human effort only
C) most tasks can be done with bare hands
D) people can work without capital
  • 46. Which of the following factors of production consists of man-made goods?
A) Capital
B) Entrepreneur
C) Land
D) labour
  • 47. Which of the following IS NOT regarded as labour?
A) Physical effort
B) Mental effort
C) Immobility of labour
D) Skillful effort
  • 48. Choice is necessary because resources
A) are available
B) are limited
C) are available
D) are scarce
  • 49. Economic problems arise because of
A) inadequate resources
B) corruption in high places
C) the creation of artificial scarcity
D) the absence of skilled labour
  • 50. Which of the following is a basic economic problem of a society?
A) level of inflation
B) What to produce
C) Scarcity
D) Price of commodity
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