This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Finance > Economics > Market Dynamics > Market Structures > Market Structures – Quiz 28 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Market Structures Quiz 28 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Attempt to make a product stand out from similar products A) Nonprice Competition. B) Product Differentiation. C) Perfect Competition. D) Predatory pricing. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Product Differentiation. 2. Type of merger in which companies that sell similar products merge A) Vertical. B) Horizontal. C) Conglomerate. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Horizontal. 3. What is an example of a monopoly? A) Taco Bell. B) National Hockey League (NHL). C) Lucky Brand Jeans. D) Holiday Inn. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) National Hockey League (NHL). 4. Airlines in the US are in what type of market structure? A) Oligopoly. B) Monopoly. C) Monopolistic Competition. D) Perfect Competition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Oligopoly. 5. Which type of competition allows anyone to participate in the market? A) Monopolistic Competition. B) Perfect Compeition. C) Both Monopolistic and Perfect Competition. D) Oligopoly. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Both Monopolistic and Perfect Competition. 6. What group of people ultimately holds the most power in a free enterprise system? A) Consumers. B) Entrepreneurs. C) The government. D) Business owners. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Consumers. 7. Public goods include A) Banking and other financial services. B) Child-care services. C) Computer repair services. D) Fire and police services. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Fire and police services. 8. In this business organization jobs can be split on areas of expertise A) Partnership. B) Franchise. C) Sole proprietorship. D) Corporation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Partnership. 9. A market structure is the organization of a industry mainly by the degree of A) Benefits. B) Costs. C) Success. D) Competition. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Competition. 10. In economics and in the law, the term "trust" refers to ..... A) Wealthy people who inherited their fortures. B) Banks that loan funds to businesses. C) Businesses that have become monopolies. D) Business owners that believe in the law. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Businesses that have become monopolies. 11. If potential profits in a market are limited by location, what type of monopoly tends to develop? A) Geographic Monopoly. B) Technical Monopoly. C) Natural Monopoly. D) Government Monopoly. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Geographic Monopoly. 12. M.....n.....p.....l.....st.....c c.....mp.....t.....t.....n means A) Monopolistic competition. B) Oligopoly. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Monopolistic competition. 13. What is the relationship between competitive behaviour and competitive market structure? A) Competitive behavior is inversely related to the competitive market structure. B) Competitive market structure is determined by government regulations, not competitive behavior. C) The level of competitive behavior is directly related to the competitive market structure. D) Competitive behavior has no impact on the competitive market structure. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The level of competitive behavior is directly related to the competitive market structure. 14. A ..... is a market structure characterized by only one seller of a product dominating the market. (Example:electrical power companies and cable television companies in certain areas) A) Perfect competition. B) Monopsons. C) Monopoly. D) Oligopoly. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Monopoly. 15. With respect to the circular flow model, businesses provide households with which of the following? A) Taxes and interest. B) Labor and taxes. C) Goods, services, and incomes. D) Public goods and transfer payments. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Goods, services, and incomes. 16. Price Control:Can the individual firms in the market for a product exercise any control over the price they charge? If not, they are called a price-taker because they must accept the market price as their own. The weaker the control over price, the more ..... the market. A) Regulated. B) Oligopolistic. C) Competitive. D) Monopolistic. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Competitive. 17. The market for agricultural produce is an example of: A) Oligopoly. B) Monopoly. C) Monopolistic competition. D) Perfect competition. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Perfect competition. 18. This market has no control over price A) Perfect competition. B) Monopolistic competition. C) Monopoly. D) Oligopoly. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Perfect competition. 19. Firms in a market that is perfectly competitive produce goods that are perfect substitutes for each other A) FALSE. B) TRUE. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) TRUE. 20. How does the decision-making process differ between a monopoly and a pure competition market? A) Decisions made in a monopoly are made by consumers, while the producers make the decisions in pure competition. B) Decisions in a monopoly are made by the producer, while consumer demand determines decisions in pure competition. C) Decisions made in a monopoly are determined by demand, while decisions in pure competition are determined by supplyand price. D) Decisions in a monopoly are determined by profit and demand, while decisions in pure competition are determined byprofit and supply. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Decisions in a monopoly are made by the producer, while consumer demand determines decisions in pure competition. 21. Firms in an oligopoly A) Are totally independent from each other. B) Are interdependent. C) Have no control over the price. D) None of these above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Are interdependent. 22. One of the ways a corporation can raise money is by A) Selling stock on the stock market. B) Buying bonds from other corporations. C) Seeking money from the governmentfor research and development. D) Selling shares to the founders. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Selling stock on the stock market. 23. When businesses charge different prices to customers for the same service/product, it is called: A) Trust-busting. B) Public disclosure. C) Price discrimination. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Price discrimination. 24. Cartel is a group of firms that collude to produce the monopoly output and sell at the monopoly price. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 25. In California, blueberry growers are price takers. The reason they are price takers is because there are ..... blueberry growers in this area A) A few. B) More than two but not many. C) Many. D) One. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Many. 26. Which market structure has high barriers to entry, firms engage in strategic behavior, and a small number of large firms dominate the market? A) Monopolistic Competition. B) Monopoly. C) Oligopoly. D) Perfect Competition. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Oligopoly. 27. In which market are firm's products always exactly the same (otherwise known as homogeneous)? A) Monopolistic competition. B) Monopoly. C) Oligopoly. D) Perfect competition. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Perfect competition. 28. If a general partnership fails, who is responsible for the debts? A) Anyone who works for the partnership. B) All of the partners. C) Only the most senior general partner. D) The state in which the business is operated. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) All of the partners. 29. If a perfectly competitive firm is currently producing a level of output at which marginal revenue (MR) exceeds marginal cost (MC), then ..... A) Total cost exceeds total revenue. B) A one-unit increase in output will increase the firm's profit. C) Total revenue exceeds total cost. D) A one-unit decrease in output will increase the firm's profit. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A one-unit increase in output will increase the firm's profit. 30. Huge monopolies dominated the American marketplace in the late 1800s. This lead the US Gov't to set ( ..... ) laws to break them up. A) Anti-trust. B) Prohibition. C) Anti-competition. D) Bankruptcy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Anti-trust. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesMarket Dynamics QuizzesEconomics QuizzesMarket Structures Quiz 1Market Structures Quiz 2Market Structures Quiz 3Market Structures Quiz 4Market Structures Quiz 5Market Structures Quiz 6Market Structures Quiz 7Market Structures Quiz 8 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books