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This set of General Economics 1 Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on General Economics 1 Set 8

Q1 | Consumption expenditure directly varies with:
  • Savings
  • Investment
  • Disposable income
  • Rate of interest
Q2 | An important issue of macro economics is the determination of:
  • Consumption
  • Production
  • Utility
  • Income and employment
Q3 | Pick the odd one:
  • Aggregate demand
  • Effective demand
  • J.M. Keynes
  • Law of market
Q4 | Which of the following items does not include in the group?
  • Consumption
  • Investment
  • Rate of Interest
  • Net exports
Q5 | If marginal propensity to consume is 0.8, the value of multiplier will be:
  • 1
  • 2.5
  • 5
  • 2
Q6 | Who is known as the father of Modern Economics?
  • Adam Smith
  • J.M.Keynes
  • Robinson
  • Ricardo
Q7 | Goods without which people can not live are called:
  • Comforts
  • Luxuries
  • Necessaries
  • None
Q8 | The problem of what to produce is a problem of:
  • Distribution
  • Technological choice
  • Consumption
  • Allocation of resources
Q9 | Those things that possess both utility and scarcity are called:
  • Economic Goods
  • Free goods
  • Intermediate goods
  • Luxuries
Q10 | If a worker specializes in the production of a single good, it is called:
  • Product based division of labour
  • Process based division of labour
  • Worker based division of labour
  • None of these
Q11 | Goods produced for use in future productive process are called:
  • Intermediate goods
  • Final goods
  • Consumer goods
  • Capital goods
Q12 | In a horizontal straight line demand curve, the price elasticity of demand is:
  • Unity
  • Infinity
  • Zero
  • Less than one
Q13 | Who wrote the article Laws of Returns Under Competitive Conditions?
  • Joan Robinson
  • E.H. Chamberlin
  • A.C. Pigou
  • P. Sraffa
Q14 | Increase in output less than proportional to increase in inputs is called:
  • Increasing returns
  • Constant returns
  • Diminishing returns
  • Marginal returns
Q15 | A simplified representation of a real situation is called:
  • Theory
  • Hypotheses
  • Evidence
  • Economic Model
Q16 | When marginal product reaches its maximum, what can be said of total product?
  • Total product must be at its maximum
  • Total product starts to decline even if marginal product is positive
  • Total product is increasing if marginal product is still positive
  • Total product levels off
Q17 | When a firm doubles its inputs and finds that its output has more than doubled, this is known as:
  • Economies of scale.
  • Constant returns to scale.
  • Diseconomies of scale.
  • A violation of the law of diminishing returns.
Q18 | When average product is at a maximum, marginal product is:
  • Zero
  • Increasing
  • Equal to average product
  • Greater than average product
Q19 | The want satisfying power of a commodity:
  • Satisfaction
  • Utility
  • Value
  • Marginal Utility
Q20 | Supply curve represents -------- relationship between quantity and price.
  • Direct
  • Inverse
  • Either direct or inverse
  • None of the above
Q21 | Laws of return shows ---------production function.
  • Short-term
  • Medium term
  • Long term
  • Annual
Q22 | In classical theory the level of employment is a function of:
  • Price level
  • Money wage rate
  • Quantity of money
  • Real wage rate
Q23 | Consumption of capital good in the process of production is called as:
  • Capital Consumption
  • Depreciation
  • Decay of Capital
  • None of the above
Q24 | Economic Laws are:
  • Statement of tendencies
  • Exact and predictable
  • Definite
  • None
Q25 | Returns to scale examines the production function in the:
  • Short-term
  • Medium term
  • Long term
  • Quinquinial