This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Finance > Economics > Macroeconomics > Macroeconomics – Quiz 29 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Macroeconomics Quiz 29 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Eleanor is a senior in high school who tutors a freshman in high school. In exchange, she only receives free housing from the freshman's family. How would she be categorized by the BLS? A) Underemployed. B) Employed. C) Not in the Labor Force. D) Unemployed. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Not in the Labor Force. 2. Which one of the following is not one of the basic economic questions? A) Who to produce for. B) How to minimize economic growth. C) How to produce. D) What to produce. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) How to minimize economic growth. 3. If Mr. Woodward's disposable income increases from $ 600 to $ 650 and her level of personal consumption expenditures increase from $ 480 to $ 520, you may conclude that her marginal propensity to A) Save is 0.4. B) Save is 0.8. C) Consume is 0.4. D) Consume is 0.8. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Consume is 0.8. 4. The federal government buys $ 20 million worth of computers from Apple. If the MPC is 0.60, what will be the impact on aggregate demand, other things being equal? A) Aggregate demand will increase $ 12 million. B) Aggregate demand will increase $ 13.33 million. C) Aggregate demand will increase $ 20 million. D) Aggregate demand will increase $ 50 million. E) Aggregate demand will not change. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Aggregate demand will increase $ 50 million. 5. Products that we can use instead of each other. A) Related goods. B) Pairs. C) Substitutes. D) Complements. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Substitutes. 6. The population of Ectenia is 100 people:40 work full-time, 20 work half-time but would prefer to work full-time, 10 are looking for a job, 10 would like to work but are so discouraged that they have given up looking, 10 are not interested in working because they are full-time students, and 10 are retired. What is the size of the labor force? A) 60. B) 70. C) 80. D) 90. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 70. 7. You buy share in ABC company in the Internet and the brokerage charges you $ 50. A) This will increase the investment component of GDP and therefore overall GDP. B) This has no effect on GDP. C) This will increase GDP by $ 50. D) This will increase GDP by the cost of the shares minus $ 50. E) This will increase GDP by the cost of the share plus $ 50. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) This will increase GDP by $ 50. 8. From the following choose the country which have highest economic welfare. A) Country A, whose GDP is very large but distributed unequally among the people. B) Country B, whose GDP is very large and distributed equally among the people. C) Country C, whose GDP is less but distributed equally among the people. D) Country D, whose GDP is less and distributed unequally among the people. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Country B, whose GDP is very large and distributed equally among the people. 9. Monetary policy as a source of instability A) Economy is in stable condition, then Fed conducts monetary policy which moves it away from natural rate. B) Reduces severity of short run economic fluctuations. C) Offset changes in AD that move economy away from natural rate. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Economy is in stable condition, then Fed conducts monetary policy which moves it away from natural rate. 10. What are the three questions all economic systems must answer? A) Who to produce for? What to produce? Where to make it?. B) What to produce? How to Produce it? Who gets what is produced?. C) When to produce? How to produce? Which things to produce?. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) What to produce? How to Produce it? Who gets what is produced?. 11. Which of the following leads to depreciation? None of these A) Normal wear and tear. B) Damages due to floods. C) Damages due to market-crash. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Normal wear and tear. 12. Long run equilibrium is the intersection of AD and LAS curves A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 13. Which one of the following is most likely to indicate a decrease in material living standards? A) A decrease in crime rates. B) Decreased rates of vaccinations for preventable diseases. C) Decreased levels of environmental biodiversity. D) Decreased levels of real GDP. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Decreased levels of real GDP. 14. Value of Investment Multiplier directly related to MPC but inversely related with A) APC. B) MPS. C) APS. D) NONE OF THESE. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) MPS. 15. The accelerator principle illustrates the relationship between investment and the rate of change of A) Unemployment. B) National income. C) Government spending. D) Prices. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) National income. 16. Taking payments out of your pay before you receive it. A) Taxable income. B) Tax return. C) Personal exemption. D) Withholding. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Withholding. 17. If the Federal Reserve increases the money supply, the aggregate-demand curve shifts to left A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 18. ..... is the market value of all final goods and services produced within a country in a given period of time. A) Output. B) GDP. C) Total income. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) GDP. 19. This business venture is an agreement between two or more groups to form a business entity in order to achieve a specific goal or to operate for a specific period of time. A) Joint venture. B) Syndicate. C) S-Corporation. D) Limited liability company (LLC). Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Joint venture. 20. Who is a microeconomic decision maker? A) The director of an international trade organisation. B) The finance minister of a government. C) The entrepreneur of a firm. D) The governor of a central bank. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The entrepreneur of a firm. 21. Which school of economic thought arose during the stagflation of the 1970s and early 80s as an attempt to grow the economy with tax cuts? A) RET. B) Neo-classical Economics. C) Supply Side Economics. D) Monetarism. E) Keynesian Economics. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Supply Side Economics. 22. Which of the following indicators is most appropriate in predicting a turningpoint in the economy? A) The Industrial Production Index. B) The average bank prime lending rate. C) Average weekly hours, manufacturing. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Average weekly hours, manufacturing. 23. The macroeconomic variables are as follows, except A) Economic growth rate. B) Inflation rate. C) Unemployment rate. D) Wage rate. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Wage rate. 24. Which of the following is a macroeconomics statement? A) The gross profit of all Malaysian businesses were RM10 billion last year. B) The price of beef declined by 1% last year. C) Perodua company profits increased in the year 2003. D) High levels of environmental quality. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The gross profit of all Malaysian businesses were RM10 billion last year. 25. Barter trading will occur when there is A) Bargaining intermediary. B) Sufficient supply of cash. C) Double coincidence of wants. D) Singularity of interests. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Double coincidence of wants. 26. Income taxes are an example of which type of taxation? A) Proportional. B) Benefit Principle. C) Progressive. D) Regressive. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Progressive. 27. What kind of chart would determine the impact of household savings on the nation's output of goods and services. A) Production possibilities curve. B) Business circular flowchart. C) Supply and deman graph. D) Pie chart. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Business circular flowchart. 28. The burden of taxation should involve equal 'sacrifice', I.e. Be progressive A) Certainty canon of taxation. B) Economy canon of taxation. C) Convenience canon of taxation. D) Equity canon of taxation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Equity canon of taxation. 29. The recurrent ups and downs in the level of economic activity extending over several years is a description of: A) A business trough. B) A noncyclical fluctuation. C) A business cycle. D) A recession. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A business cycle. 30. A guarantee that all citizens receive unconditional access to a range of free, basic public services such as shelter, healthcare, education, and public transport A) Universal Basic Services (UBS). B) Universal Job Guarantee (UJG). C) Democratic Socialism. D) Universal Basic Income (UBI). Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Universal Basic Services (UBS). ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesEconomics QuizzesFinance QuizzesMacroeconomics Quiz 1Macroeconomics Quiz 2Macroeconomics Quiz 3Macroeconomics Quiz 4Macroeconomics Quiz 5Macroeconomics Quiz 6Macroeconomics Quiz 7Macroeconomics Quiz 8 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books