This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Finance > Economics > Market Dynamics > Market Structures > Market Structures – Quiz 31 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Market Structures Quiz 31 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which market structure has a single firm or entity as the sole seller or producer of a particular product or service? A) Perfect Competition. B) Monopolistic Competition. C) Monopoly. D) Oligopoly. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Monopoly. 2. SSEMI3 b WOW and Comcast, the only two internet service providers in Evans, meet secretly to decide to set prices very high. This is an example of A) Monopolistic Competition. B) Monopoly. C) A price war. D) Collusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Collusion. 3. Which of the following companies were one of the first to be regulated by the government? A) Electric companies. B) Transportation companies. C) Phone companies. D) All of the Above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the Above. 4. Illegal combination of corporations or companies organized to suppress competition A) Collusion. B) Trust. C) Cartel. D) Corruption. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Trust. 5. Market structure where alternatives for its products are limited. A) Perfect Competition. B) Monopoly. C) Monopolistic Competition. D) Oligopoly. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Oligopoly. 6. A business that cannot set the prices itself, but accepts the market price A) Cartel. B) Monopoly. C) Price taker. D) Price maker. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Price taker. 7. The market type known as perfect competition is ..... A) Highly competitive and firms find it impossible to earn an economic profit in the long run. B) Marked by firms continuously trying to change their products so that consumers prefer their product to their competitors' products. C) Dominated by fierce advertising campaigns. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Highly competitive and firms find it impossible to earn an economic profit in the long run. 8. If an industry is relatively cheap for new firms to enter, but consumers do not care about quality differences it is probably which market structure? A) Monopolistic competition. B) Monopoly. C) Oligopoly. D) Perfect competition. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Perfect competition. 9. Which of the following is the most competitive market structure? A) Pure oligopoly. B) Monopolistic competition. C) Differentiated oligopoly. D) Perfect competition. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Perfect competition. 10. This market structure has some barriers to entry but they are typically low A) Monopoly. B) Monopolistic Competition. C) Perfect Competition. D) Oligopoly. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Monopolistic Competition. 11. There are ..... types of market structures. A) Different. B) Similar. C) Identical. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Different. 12. Oligopoly is an imperfectly competitive market structure containing ..... firms. A) A few. B) Numerous. C) Option 3. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A few. 13. Oligopolies and monopolies are the same because ..... A) They both have many buyers and sellers. B) They both are the only sellers of their product. C) They both have identical products. D) They both have high barriers to entry. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) They both have high barriers to entry. 14. Is exploitation common to monopolists? A) Yes. B) No. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Yes. 15. Natural monopolies typically have high fixed costs, so only one firm is able to serve the market at a profit A) FALSE. B) TRUE. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) TRUE. 16. Greater control over prices, higher prices, but still affordable for many, sometimes shortages are created to jack up prices, little competition, good size profit, will sometimes work together to run others out of the market or increase their profits. A) Perfect Competition. B) Oligopoly. C) Monopoly. D) Monopolistic Competition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Oligopoly. 17. True or False:In monopolistic competition, products are identical. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 18. Jeans, books, shampoo, cereal are examples A) Perfect Competition. B) Oligopoly. C) Monopoly. D) Monopolistic Competition. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Monopolistic Competition. 19. Which is NOT one of the 3 Cs of economics? A) Choice. B) Containment. C) Consequences. D) Cost. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Containment. 20. No control over prices, lowest possible prices, production= at equilibrium, price competition only, small profit and great efficiency in this market A) Perfect Competition. B) Oligopoly. C) Monopoly. D) Monopolistic Competition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Perfect Competition. 21. Deregulation means that the government no longer decides what role each company can play in a particular market. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 22. SSEMI3 Which business has the greatest degree of decision-making for a single person? A) Corporation. B) Sole proprietorship. C) Partnership. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sole proprietorship. 23. In this market, there are no available substitutes: A) Monopolistic competition. B) Monopoly. C) Oligopoly. D) Perfect competition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Monopoly. 24. Which best describes the goal of a monopoly? A) Maximize profits. B) Lower Barriers to Entry. C) Improve products. D) Address Consumer Concerns. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Maximize profits. 25. SSEMI3 Which of the following is NOT one of the three types of business organizations? A) Sole Proprietorship. B) Corporation. C) Oligopoly. D) Partnership. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Oligopoly. 26. SSEMI3 b A produce market, with many different farmers selling corn, tomatoes, peppers, etc., (identical products) but the farmers have no control over their prices. This would probably be considered what type of market structure? A) Monopoly. B) Monopolistic Competition. C) Oligopoly. D) Perfect Competiton. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Perfect Competiton. 27. Difficult to nearly impossible for new firms to enter A) Perfect competition and monopolistic competition. B) Perfect competition and oligopolies. C) Oligopolies and monopolies. D) Monopolies and monopolistic competition. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Oligopolies and monopolies. 28. As a market structure, ..... offers goods and services that do not have substitutes outside the industry. A) Pure competition. B) Oligopoly. C) Monopolistic competition. D) Monopoly. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Monopolistic competition. 29. Which of the following statements is not true of firms in perfect competition A) All producers charge the same price. B) All producers make the same product. C) Each firm tries to sell more by reducing its price. D) There are no barriers of entry. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Each firm tries to sell more by reducing its price. 30. In a perfect competition all the sellers of the market are small sellers in competition with each other. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. ← 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