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This section includes 406 Mcqs, each offering curated multiple-choice questions to sharpen your Economics knowledge and support exam preparation. Choose a topic below to get started.
1. |
Which of the following terms refers to income that is saved and not invested ? |
A. | Capital |
B. | Deposit |
C. | Hoarding |
D. | Profit |
Answer» D. Profit | |
2. |
Which of the following would cause income to become more unequal ? |
A. | Increased employment |
B. | Increased unemployment allowance |
C. | More progressive taxes |
D. | More regressive taxes |
Answer» E. | |
3. |
Which of the following would increase national income ? |
A. | Increase in taxation |
B. | Increase in savings |
C. | Increase in govt. spending |
D. | Decrease in consumption spending |
Answer» D. Decrease in consumption spending | |
4. |
Which property the paper money does not process ? |
A. | Acceptability |
B. | Divisibility |
C. | Durability |
D. | Portability |
Answer» D. Portability | |
5. |
Which situation will a country face, if the birth rate falls sharply, while the death rate remains unchanged ? |
A. | a fall in living standards |
B. | a more youthful population |
C. | an ageing population |
D. | an increase in population |
Answer» D. an increase in population | |
6. |
Which statistical factor is used to convert current currency purchasing power into inflation adjusted purchasing power ? |
A. | Deflector |
B. | Purchasing power parity |
C. | Inflator |
D. | Deflation |
Answer» B. Purchasing power parity | |
7. |
Which term is used for a bank account which can be operated at will ? |
A. | Saving Account |
B. | Fixed account |
C. | Current account |
D. | Fluctuated account |
Answer» D. Fluctuated account | |
8. |
Which term is used for a country’s holdings of intentionally acceptable means of payment ? |
A. | Holdings |
B. | Reserves |
C. | Foreign currency |
D. | Treasure |
Answer» C. Foreign currency | |
9. |
Which term is used for an addition to normal payment by a company or extra payment of gratuity to workers ? |
A. | Bonus |
B. | Overtime |
C. | Prize |
D. | Gift |
Answer» B. Overtime | |
10. |
Which term is used for an engagement in risky business with the idea of making a large profit in short time ? |
A. | Idealism |
B. | Blind game |
C. | Speculation |
D. | Risk covering |
Answer» D. Risk covering | |
11. |
Which term is used for fine that is payable for failing to clear goods from a storehouse with in a specific period of time ? |
A. | Demurrage |
B. | Penalty |
C. | Charges |
D. | Fine |
Answer» B. Penalty | |
12. |
Which term is used for the period of competition in which each competitor tries to cut retail prices below the others ? |
A. | Price competition |
B. | Price support |
C. | Price war |
D. | Price battle |
Answer» D. Price battle | |
13. |
Which term is used for the total net value of all goods and services produced in a country in specified period of time ? |
A. | National income |
B. | Public income |
C. | Local income |
D. | Gross income |
Answer» B. Public income | |
14. |
Which term is used for the value imprinted on a security ? |
A. | Real value |
B. | Net value |
C. | Par value |
D. | Gross value |
Answer» D. Gross value | |
15. |
Which theory of economic management focuses on encouraging product through tax reduction ? |
A. | Liberalism |
B. | Free market economics |
C. | Supply-side economics |
D. | Supervised market |
Answer» D. Supervised market | |
16. |
Which type of income is earned only the actor of production enterprise ? |
A. | interest |
B. | Profit |
C. | rent |
D. | wages |
Answer» C. rent | |
17. |
Who among the following is most benefited from inflation ? |
A. | Government pensioners |
B. | Creditors |
C. | Savings Bank Account holders |
D. | Debtors |
Answer» E. | |
18. |
Who is a “Lame Duck” in a stock market ? |
A. | A new investor |
B. | A old investor |
C. | A member of the stock exchange who cannot meet his obligations |
D. | None of the above |
Answer» D. None of the above | |
19. |
Who is called Father of Economics ? |
A. | Adam smith |
B. | David Ricardo |
C. | David smith |
D. | Adam Ricardo |
Answer» B. David Ricardo | |
20. |
Who is insolvent_______________? |
A. | A firm that is unable to pay debts |
B. | A firm that is liquidated |
C. | A firm that is for sale |
D. | A firm that has more liabilities than assets |
Answer» B. A firm that is liquidated | |
21. |
With whom would you associate the following quote” The business of business is business” ? |
A. | Milton Friedman |
B. | Adam smith |
C. | Alfred Marshal |
D. | Karl Marx |
Answer» B. Adam smith | |
22. |
Which of the following payment instruments introduced by the banks is known as plastic money ? |
A. | Bearer cheques |
B. | Credit Cards |
C. | Demand Drafts |
D. | Gift Cheques |
Answer» C. Demand Drafts | |
23. |
Which of the following must always balance ? |
A. | The balance of visible trade |
B. | The balance of invisible trade |
C. | The balance on the current account |
D. | The balance of payments |
Answer» E. | |
24. |
Which of the following is the Pakistan’s central bank ? |
A. | State Bank |
B. | National Bank |
C. | Both of them |
D. | None of them |
Answer» B. National Bank | |
25. |
Which of the following is referred by the phrase trade balance ? |
A. | Income from export |
B. | Difference between imports and exports |
C. | Income from imports |
D. | All of them |
Answer» C. Income from imports | |
26. |
Which of the following is regarded as a factor of production ? |
A. | Capital |
B. | Interest |
C. | Profit |
D. | None of these |
Answer» B. Interest | |
27. |
Which of the following is referred by principle ? |
A. | Total amount of money being borrowed or lent |
B. | Party affected by agent decision in a principal agent relationship |
C. | Both of them |
D. | None of them |
Answer» D. None of them | |
28. |
Which of the following is referred by the Debt retirement ? |
A. | To write-off debt |
B. | To reschedule debt |
C. | To repay debt in easy installments |
D. | The complete repayment of debt |
Answer» E. | |
29. |
Which of the following is rate of interest the major international banks charge each other for borrowings ? |
A. | New York Interbank Offered Rates (NIBOR) |
B. | international Interbank Offered Rates (IOBOR) |
C. | London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) |
D. | USA Interbank Offered Rate (UIBOR) |
Answer» D. USA Interbank Offered Rate (UIBOR) | |
30. |
Which of the following is Price of the last transaction of a particular stock completed during a day’s trading session on an exchange ? |
A. | Night Price |
B. | Closing Price |
C. | End price |
D. | Final price |
Answer» C. End price | |
31. |
Which of the following is not required while computing Gross National Product (GNP) ? |
A. | Net foreign investment |
B. | Private investment |
C. | Per capita income of citizens |
D. | None of the above |
Answer» D. None of the above | |
32. |
Which of the following is not rated by credit rating agencies ? |
A. | Shares |
B. | Debentures and bonds |
C. | Commercial paper |
D. | Government securities |
Answer» B. Debentures and bonds | |
33. |
Which of the following is not an instrument of monetary policy ? |
A. | Taxation |
B. | Bank rate |
C. | Open-market operations |
D. | Credit rationing |
Answer» B. Bank rate | |
34. |
Which of the following is not a function of a commercial bank? |
A. | Accepting public deposits |
B. | Granting loan and advances |
C. | Undertaking agency functions |
D. | Banker to the government |
Answer» E. | |
35. |
Which of the following is known as foreign exchange ? |
A. | Transaction of International monetary business |
B. | Negotiable bills drawn in one country to be paid in another country |
C. | Both of them |
D. | None of them |
Answer» D. None of them | |
36. |
Which of the following is indicated by the term unemployed ? |
A. | Employed only part time when one needs full time employment |
B. | Inadequately employed |
C. | Note fully used or employed |
D. | All of them |
Answer» E. | |
37. |
Which of the following is called a wholly or partially owned company what is the part of the large corporation? |
A. | Baby company |
B. | Child company |
C. | Small holding |
D. | Subsidiary |
Answer» C. Small holding | |
38. |
Which of the following is an example of government policy that could reduce inflation ? |
A. | increasing bank lending |
B. | increasing import duties |
C. | reducing government expenditure |
D. | None of these |
Answer» D. None of these | |
39. |
Which of the following is a withdraw from the circular flow income stream ? |
A. | Investment |
B. | Subsidies |
C. | Taxation |
D. | Consumption |
Answer» D. Consumption | |
40. |
Which of the following is a valid currency______________? |
A. | Promissory note |
B. | Currency note |
C. | Exchange rate |
D. | Bank cheque |
Answer» C. Exchange rate | |
41. |
Which of the following is a price that is equal to the face value of a security ? |
A. | Balanced |
B. | At Equilibrium |
C. | At Par |
D. | None of them |
Answer» D. None of them | |
42. |
Which of the following is a form of international reserve assets, created by IMF in 1967 whose value is based on a portfolio of widely used currencies ? |
A. | Special Drawing Right (SDR) |
B. | IMF Drawing Rights (SDR) |
C. | International Drawing Right (IDR) |
D. | Sure, Drawing Rights (SDR) |
Answer» B. IMF Drawing Rights (SDR) | |
43. |
Which of the following groups suffer the most from inflation ? |
A. | Debtors |
B. | Creditors |
C. | Business class |
D. | None of these |
Answer» C. Business class | |
44. |
Which of the following can be used for check inflation temporarily ? |
A. | increase in wages |
B. | Decrease in money supply |
C. | Decrease in tax |
D. | None of these |
Answer» D. None of these | |
45. |
Which of the following are bonds that are not registered on the books of the issuer ? |
A. | Open bond |
B. | Blank bond |
C. | Term bond |
D. | Bearer bond |
Answer» E. | |
46. |
Which money is called ‘Earnest’ Money ? |
A. | Advanced payment to bind a contract or bargain |
B. | A token of something to come |
C. | A promise or assurance |
D. | All of these |
Answer» E. | |
47. |
Which money is called Hot money ? |
A. | That moves across country borders in response to interest rate differences |
B. | That moves away when the interest rate differential |
C. | Both of them |
D. | None of them |
Answer» D. None of them | |
48. |
Which mineral’s chief exporter is Russia? |
A. | Manganese |
B. | Rubber |
C. | Gold |
D. | Silver |
Answer» B. Rubber | |
49. |
Which measures. taken by a government would be intended to raise the price of imports ? |
A. | Embargoes |
B. | Foreign exchange controls |
C. | Quotas |
D. | Tariffs |
Answer» E. | |
50. |
Which market is characterized by a small number of large buyers who control all purchases and therefore the market price of a good a service ? |
A. | Oligopoly |
B. | Grey market |
C. | Oligopsony |
D. | Green market |
Answer» D. Green market | |