This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Finance > Economics > Market Dynamics > Market Structures > Market Structures – Quiz 38 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Market Structures Quiz 38 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A ..... is a product that is considered the same no matter who sells it, ex. corn. A) Doodlewhig. B) Competition. C) Monopoly. D) Commodity. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Commodity. 2. Google controls 67% of the web search market. The company has grown and branched off into email, online maps, GPS tracking systems, online data storage and mobile phones. There are competitors like Microsoft and Yahoo, but they own just 18% and 11% of the market, respectively. Which market structure(s) best fit Google? A) Oligopoly. B) Perfect competition. C) Monopoly. D) Monopolistic competition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Oligopoly. 3. A market structure in which a large number of firms all produce the same product and no single seller controls supply or prices A) Government Monopoly. B) Oligopoly. C) Natural Monopoly. D) Perfect Competition. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Perfect Competition. 4. If a monopoly can perfectly price discriminate, what happens to the market? A) All consumers will pay more than a competitive market. B) There is no dead weight loss. C) All consumers will get better deals. D) The US government will enforce its antitrust laws. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) There is no dead weight loss. 5. What kind of market runs most efficiently when one firm supplies all the goods? A) Oligopoly. B) Perfect competition. C) Monopolistic competition. D) Monopoly. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Monopoly. 6. Your car was designed in the US but made in Europe, what type of enterprise is this? A) Oligopoly. B) Multinational Corporation. C) Domestic Monopoly. D) General partnership. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Multinational Corporation. 7. The use of the features of a product to differentiate the product is ..... ? A) Store layout. B) Non price competition. C) Price competition. D) Bait and switch. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Non price competition. 8. What type of monopoly is based on ownership of control of a manufacturing method, process, or other scientific advance A) Geographic Monopoly. B) Government Monopoly. C) Technological Monopoly. D) Natural Monopoly. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Technological Monopoly. 9. A trust is when monopoly is broken up in order to increase competition A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 10. ABC business is one of the few large firms in the country. If it increases his price, his competitors tend to ..... If it decreases his price, his competitors tend to ..... Hence, ABC will ..... its price in order to compete. A) Not follow / follow / change. B) Follow / follow / change. C) Follow / not follow / maintain. D) Not follow / follow / maintain. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Not follow / follow / maintain. 11. In the housing market, a NPF moves the demand curve right. What happens to the allocation of resources? A) Decrease. B) Moves left. C) Increase. D) Moves right. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Increase. 12. Liam, Olivia, and Aiden are running their own businesses in the same industry. They are discussing the impact of new businesses entering and existing businesses leaving their industry in the long run. What could be the impact of these changes on the industry equilibrium? A) Entry of new businesses like Liam's leads to a decrease in market supply. B) Only the most efficient businesses like Olivia's survive and remain in the industry. C) Exit of businesses like Aiden's leads to an increase in market supply. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 13. Levi's jeans are part of ..... A) A monopoly. B) An oligopoly. C) Monopolistic Competition. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Monopolistic Competition. 14. 5 cell phone makers control about 85% of the market for cell phones so they are in what market structure: A) Oligopoly. B) Monopolistic Competition. C) Perfect Competition. D) Monopoly. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Oligopoly. 15. If there is something wrong a a food product who is responsible for informing the public? A) FEMA. B) FDA. C) OSHA. D) NLRB. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) FDA. 16. This market structure occurs when an industry is filled with many sellers who sell similar but differentiated products A) Monopolistic Competition. B) Monopoly. C) Perfect Competition. D) Oligopoly. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Monopolistic Competition. 17. How do products in a monopolistic competition differ from the products sold in a perfectly competitive market? A) The products are homogeneous or idential. B) The products are similar but differentiated. C) All products could be the leading brand. D) The products are sold by only a few sellers. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The products are similar but differentiated. 18. If an industry is basically impossible for new firms to enter because of government regulation, it is probably which market structure? A) Monopoly. B) Monopolistic competition. C) Perfect competition. D) Oligopoly. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Monopoly. 19. Oligopoly is a market which has A) Firms with huge usp. B) Huge number of sellers. C) Limited product to be sold. D) Few large firms. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Few large firms. 20. Which of the following statements about monopolistically competitive markets is false? A) Firms in a monopolistically competitive market compete with each other in ways besides price (they engage in non-price competition). B) Firms in a monopolistically competitive market often attempt to differentiate their products from their competitors with unique product attributes. C) Monopolistically competitive firms often advertise to increase demand for their products. D) Monopolistically competitive markets are similar to perfectly competitive markets in that there are many sellers in both market structures. E) Firms in a monopolistically competitive market are price takers and have no choice but to charge the same price as their competitors. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Firms in a monopolistically competitive market are price takers and have no choice but to charge the same price as their competitors. 21. Brand loyalty describes the willingness of consumers to buy a good at a higher price than the price of its close substitutes A) FALSE. B) TRUE. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) TRUE. 22. A market with very few sellers and plenty buyers is called ..... A) Monopoly. B) Monopsons. C) Oligopoly. D) Duopoly. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Oligopoly. 23. A single-price monopolist is currently producing in the inelastic portion of its market demand curve. In order to maximize profits, the monopolist should change the price and quantity in which of the following ways? A) P=No Change; Q=Increase. B) P=Increase; Q=Increase. C) P=Increase; Q=Decrease. D) P=Decrease; Q=Decrease. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) P=Increase; Q=Decrease. 24. In which market structure do firm's not use the marginal principle to maximize profit? A) Oligopoly. B) Monopoly. C) Perfect competition. D) Monopolistic competition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Oligopoly. 25. This is the easiest market structure to enter because of low barriers to entry and the number of producers. A) Monopoly. B) Perfect Competition. C) Oligopoly. D) Monopolistic Competition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Perfect Competition. 26. What is the market supply curve for a monopoly firm? A) Horizontal. B) Downward sloping. C) Upward sloping. D) No supply curve. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Upward sloping. 27. Price takers are individuals in a market who: A) Select the lowest price available in a competitive market. B) Select the average of prices available in a competitive market. C) Select a price from a wide range of alternatives. D) Have no ability to affect the price of a good in a market. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Have no ability to affect the price of a good in a market. 28. In the circular flow model, which of the following flows in the opposite direction from the flow of factors of production and goods/services? A) Finished goods and services. B) Wages, rent, interest, and profit. C) Transfer payments from government. D) Firm's profit incentives. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Wages, rent, interest, and profit. 29. A disadvantage to a corporation is that A) Decision making is no longer controlled by the original entrepreneur. B) Bond holder have first claim to a corporation's profits. C) Dividends are taxed twice, once as a corporate income and once as personal income. D) Stockholders demand and get large dividends if any profits are made. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dividends are taxed twice, once as a corporate income and once as personal income. 30. Buyers have few choices when it comes down to satellite TV and internet providers. Basically, the producers are pretty much the same. This is an example of A) Oligopoly. B) Perfect competition. C) Monopolistic competition. D) Monopoly. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Oligopoly. ← 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