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1.

Let a firm employs 5 labourers and produces 120 units of output. When 6 labourers are employed the firm produces 136 units of output. Then the marginal product is ---

A. 120
B. 136
C. 6
D. 16
Answer» E.
2.

Economies of scale refers to:

A. Advantages resulting from large scale production
B. Disadvantages resulting from large scale production
C. Advantages resulting from the increase in the number of consumers
D. All of the above
Answer» B. Disadvantages resulting from large scale production
3.

Economics is a social science because

A. The central point in economics is man and his problems
B. Economics uses scientific approach to derive its laws
C. Like History, Politics and Psychology economics deals with the problems of human being
D. All of the above
Answer» E.
4.

Wear and tear of capital due to constant use means:

A. Intermediate consumption
B. Final consumption
C. Depreciation
D. Devaluation
Answer» D. Devaluation
5.

When an individual’s income falls, when everything else remains the same, his demand for inferior goods:

A. Increases
B. Decreases
C. Remains unchanged
D. Cannot say
Answer» B. Decreases
6.

An increase in market supply, demand remaining the same causes

A. Increase in equilibrium price
B. Decrease in equilibrium quantity
C. Decrease in equilibrium price and increase in equilibrium quantity
D. Both equilibrium price and quantity rises
Answer» D. Both equilibrium price and quantity rises
7.

At the ‘point of inflection’

A. MP is maximum
B. AP is maximum
C. TP is maximum
D. All of the above
Answer» B. AP is maximum
8.

When an individual’s income rises, when everything else remains the same, his demand for normal goods:

A. Rises
B. Falls
C. Remains the same
D. Any of the above is possible
Answer» B. Falls
9.

Say’s Law of market was proved wrong by:

A. Industrial revolution
B. Great Depression
C. Green revolution
D. Gulf war
Answer» C. Green revolution
10.

Keynesian aggregate supply curve is:

A. Perfectly elastic
B. Perfectly inelastic
C. Unitary elastic
D. Parabola
Answer» B. Perfectly inelastic
11.

In drawing an individual demand curve for a commodity, all but which of the following are kept constant:

A. Individual’s money income
B. The prices of the related commodity
C. Price of the commodity under consideration
D. Tastes of the consumer
Answer» D. Tastes of the consumer
12.

Production function expresses

A. The relationship between input and output
B. How maximum output is produced with the given input
C. What is the least-cost combination of input to produce the given output
D. All of the above
Answer» E.
13.

A firm produces 200 units of commodity X by employing 10 workers and 240 units of the same commodity by employing 12 workers. Then the Average Product of the worker is --------

A. 200
B. 240
C. 20
D. 40
Answer» D. 40
14.

“The starting point of all economic activity is the existence of human wants” Who said this?

A. Adam Smith
B. Selligman
C. Ricardo
D. Alfred Marshall
Answer» C. Ricardo
15.

Marginal product of a factor is

A. The additional product received by the firm due to the employment of an additional unit of a variable factor
B. Addition to the total product when one more unit of a factor is employed
C. The rate of change in the total product per unit change in the variable factor.
D. All of the above
Answer» E.
16.

If the amount of the commodity purchased remains unchanged when the price of another commodity changes, the cross elasticity of demand between them will be:

A. Positive
B. Negative
C. Zero
D. One
Answer» D. One
17.

Returns to scale examines the production function in the:

A. Short-term
B. Medium term
C. Long term
D. Quinquinial
Answer» D. Quinquinial
18.

Which one of the following is an example of an economic good

A. Sunlight
B. Air
C. Petrol
D. None of the above
Answer» D. None of the above
19.

A market:

A. Necessarily refers to a meeting place between buyer and sellers
B. Does not necessarily refers to a meeting place between buyer and sellers
C. Extends over the entire country
D. Extends over a city
Answer» C. Extends over the entire country
20.

Primary sector includes:

A. Agriculture
B. Industry
C. Services
D. Banking
Answer» B. Industry
21.

Wages and prices are ----------, according to the Classicals.

A. Rigid
B. Flexible
C. Both
D. All of these
Answer» C. Both
22.

If the quantity demanded remains unchanged as the price of the commodity falls, the coefficient of price elasticity of demand is:

A. Greater than
B. one Equal to one
C. Smaller than one
D. Zero
Answer» E.
23.

Production is said to be efficient when:

A. The re-allocation of resources cannot increase the production of the article even by one unit
B. More output is produced with the given input
C. Resources are fully employed
D. All of the above
Answer» B. More output is produced with the given input
24.

Supply curve represents -------- relationship between quantity andprice.

A. direct
B. inverse
C. either direct or inverse
D. none of the above
Answer» B. inverse
25.

When a firm doubles its inputs and finds that its output has morethan doubled, this is known as:

A. economies of scale.
B. constant returns to scale.
C. diseconomies of scale.
D. a violation of the law of diminishing returns.
Answer» B. constant returns to scale.
26.

When marginal product reaches its maximum, what can be said oftotal product?

A. total product must be at its maximum
B. total product starts to decline even if marginal product is positive
C. total product is increasing if marginal product is still positive
D. total product levels off
Answer» D. total product levels off
27.

Increase in output less than proportional to increase in inputs iscalled:

A. increasing returns
B. constant returns
C. diminishing returns
D. marginal returns
Answer» D. marginal returns
28.

In a horizontal straight line demand curve, the price elasticity ofdemand is:

A. unity
B. infinity
C. zero
D. less than one
Answer» C. zero
29.

“In the long run, we are all dead”. Who said this?

A. keynes
B. adam smith
C. karl marx
D. david ricardo
Answer» B. adam smith
30.

The proportion between incremental income and incrementalconsumption is called:

A. apc
B. aps
C. mpc
D. mps
Answer» D. mps
31.

Who repudiated Say’s law of market?

A. j.b. say
B. david ricardo
C. j.s. mill
D. j.m. keynes
Answer» E.
32.

‘The General Theory’, was published in :

A. 1776
B. 1890
C. 1936
D. 1950
Answer» D. 1950
33.

Author of the book ‘The General Theory of Employment, Interest andMoney’:

A. karl marxq
B. j.b. say
C. j.m. keynes
D. adam smith
Answer» D. adam smith
34.

Temporary unemployment is -------------, according to the Classicaleconomists:

A. impossible
B. permanent
C. possible
D. none of these
Answer» D. none of these
35.

Equilibrium in the economy is settled by ---------, according to theClassicals.

A. centralized planning
B. price mechanism
C. both the planning and price mechanism
D. none of these
Answer» C. both the planning and price mechanism
36.

“Supply creates its own demand” is called:

A. law of supply
B. law of market
C. law of demand
D. law of elasticity
Answer» C. law of demand
37.

‘Law of Market’ is attributed to:

A. j.s. mill
B. j.b. say
C. alfred marshall
D. a.c. pigou
Answer» C. alfred marshall
38.

The term “Classical Economics” was first used by:

A. j.m. keynes
B. adam smith
C. karl marx
D. david ricardo
Answer» D. david ricardo
39.

Supply curve represents -------- relationship between quantity andprice

A. direct
B. inverse
C. either direct or inverse
D. none of the above
Answer» B. inverse
40.

If a positively sloped linear supply curve passes through the origin, theelasticity of supply is

A. inelastic
B. elastic
C. unitary elastic
D. perfectly elastic
Answer» D. perfectly elastic
41.

If a positively sloped linear supply curve crosses the quantity axis, theelasticity of supply is:

A. inelastic
B. elastic
C. unitary elastic
D. perfectly elastic
Answer» B. elastic
42.

Elasticity of supply for a positively sloped straight line supply curve thatintersects the price axis is:

A. equal to zero
B. equal to one
C. greater than one
D. constant
Answer» D. constant
43.

From the position of stable equilibrium, the market supply of a commoditydecreases, while the market demand remains unchanged, then:

A. equilibrium price falls
B. equilibrium quantity rises
C. both equilibrium price and equilibrium quantity decreases
D. equilibrium price rises, but equilibrium quantity falls
Answer» E.
44.

If the supply curve of the commodity is having a positive slope, a rise inthe price of the commodity, results in:

A. increase in supply
B. increase in quantity supplied
C. decrease in supply
D. decrease in quantity supplied
Answer» C. decrease in supply
45.

If a small change in price leads to infinitely large change in quantitydemanded, then the demand is:

A. perfectly elastic
B. perfectly inelastic
C. elastic
D. inelastic
Answer» B. perfectly inelastic
46.

If the income elasticity of demand for a commodity is found to be 0.4,then the commodity concerned is:

A. luxury
B. necessity
C. giffen’s goods
D. independent good
Answer» C. giffen’s goods
47.

If the income elasticity of demand is greater than one, then thecommodity is:

A. necessity
B. luxury
C. inferior
D. non-related commodity
Answer» B. luxury
48.

If the quantity demanded remains unchanged as the price of thecommodity falls, the coefficient of price elasticity of demand is:

A. greater than
B. one equal to one
C. smaller than one
D. zero
Answer» E.
49.

When an individual’s income falls, when everything else remains thesame, his demand for inferior goods:

A. increases
B. decreases
C. remains unchanged
D. cannot say
Answer» B. decreases
50.

When an individual’s income rises, when everything else remains thesame, his demand for normal goods:

A. rises
B. falls
C. remains the same
D. any of the above is possible
Answer» B. falls