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Correct Answer: B) Inflation erodes (take away from) the purchasing power of the dollar.
Correct Answer: D) When inflation is high, unemployment tends to be low, and vice versa.
Correct Answer: B) False.
Correct Answer: C) C. budget deficits will tend to be inflationary.
Correct Answer: B) Rise steadily annually.
Correct Answer: B) It leads to thebest possible use of scarce resources in order to bestsatisfy unlimited human needs and wants.
Correct Answer: A) Wages do not fall easily and firms fear price wars.
Correct Answer: C) Slump.
Correct Answer: D) Decrease.
Correct Answer: C) A hyperinflation.
Correct Answer: B) Inflation.
Correct Answer: B) Employment.
Correct Answer: A) Not able to provide coal to France.
Correct Answer: C) Inflation in the long run typically follows periods of expansion in the money supply.
Correct Answer: D) A change in the money supply only affects nominal variables such as prices and wages.
Correct Answer: B) Recession.
Correct Answer: A) Prints too much money.
Correct Answer: B) A country's prices are increasing at a very high rate.
Correct Answer: A) A depreciation in the exchange rate.
Correct Answer: C) Inflation affects different sectors of the economy in various ways.
Correct Answer: B) The value of savings decreases during inflation as the purchasing power of money decreases.
Correct Answer: B) The economy cannot produce quickly enough for all sectors, and shortages occur.
Correct Answer: A) Cost-push Inflation.
Correct Answer: B) Decrease in overall demand.
Correct Answer: A) Rarely.