This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Economics > Price > Controls > Price Ceilings And Floors – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Price Ceilings And Floors Quiz 1 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Price is currently above equilibrium. This will create excess ..... We would expect price to ..... A) Demand; increase. B) Demand; decrease. C) Supply; increase. D) Supply; decrease. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Supply; decrease. 2. The monetary value of a product A) Price. B) Price ceiling. C) Economic model. D) Target price. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Price. 3. A price floor is created in order to benefit A) Businesses. B) Consumers. C) Government. D) Canadians. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Businesses. 4. The set of skills that an employee acquires through training and experience, which increases that employees value in the marketplace, is know as A) Labor productivity. B) Derived demand. C) Human capital. D) Income capital. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Human capital. 5. What is a government payment for certain actions? A) Subsidy. B) Tax. C) Tariff. D) Profit. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Subsidy. 6. What kind of changes would be expected in the demand of a country that has a growing population? A) A rise in the demand for recreation. B) A decrease in the demand for cars. C) A shift in the demand for high quality food. D) An increase in the demand for shelter. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) An increase in the demand for shelter. 7. The purpose of rationing during World War II was to ensure that A) Manufacturers could make a profit. B) Workers would have an incentive to get jobs. C) Products would go to those who valued them most. D) Everyone could get essential scarce goods. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Everyone could get essential scarce goods. 8. This occurs when the quantity supplied exceeds the quantity demanded. A) Surplus. B) Inefficient Markets. C) Price Floor. D) Shortage. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Surplus. 9. Price floors tend to result in ..... A) Shortages. B) Rationing. C) Surpluses. D) Equilibrium. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Surpluses. 10. The amount of a good or service that consumers are willing and able to buy at a SPECIFIC PRICE A) Demand. B) Quantity Demanded. C) Supply. D) Quantity Supplied. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Quantity Demanded. 11. When a price ceiling is in place keeping the price below the market price, what's larger:quantity demanded or quantity supplied? A) Quantity demanded. B) Quantity supplied. C) Indeterminate with the given information. D) Neither. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Quantity demanded. 12. What is created when prices are too low? A) Subsidy. B) Surplus. C) Shortage. D) Equilibrium price. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Shortage. 13. What is the perfect price for a supplier to sell a product & make sure it does not stay for long periods in the store? Also called market clearing price A) Surplus. B) Shortage. C) Equilibrium price. D) Subsidy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Equilibrium price. 14. Price ceilings tend to result in ..... A) Equilibrium. B) Surpluses. C) Higher prices. D) Shortages. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Shortages. 15. Effective price ceilings are inefficient because they A) Create shortages. B) Lead to wasted resources. C) Decrease quality. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 16. If he illegally subleases his apartment to Sally on the black market for $ 2, 500 per month and instead rents a $ 2, 000 apartment, is he better off or worse off than if he obeyed the law? A) Better off. B) Worst off. C) Indeterminate given the information. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Better off. 17. An Increase in Supply or a shift of the supply curve to the right occurs when: A) A rise in input costs happens. B) If Government pays subsidies for a good. C) If producers expect the price to fall in the future. D) If government regulates a good. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) If Government pays subsidies for a good. 18. A price floor will usually result in a A) Shortage. B) Quota rent. C) Wedge. D) Surplus. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Surplus. 19. ..... often leads to inefficiency in that the goods being offered are of inefficiently low quality. A) Price floor. B) Quota wedge. C) Price ceiling. D) Quota rent. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Price ceiling. 20. Price where quantity supplied equals quantity demanded. A) Equilibrium price. B) Price. C) Price floor. D) Equilibrium quantity. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Equilibrium price. 21. The point where QS and QD are equal is called ..... A) Shortage. B) Surplus. C) The middle. D) Equilibrium. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Equilibrium. 22. What is the perfect price for a supplier to sell a product & make sure it does not stay for long periods in the store? A) Shortage. B) Surplus. C) Subsidy. D) Equilibrium price. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Equilibrium price. 23. A price ceiling will usually result in a A) Wedge. B) Surplus. C) Quota rent. D) Shortage. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Shortage. 24. When governments impose a price floor, it creates a scenario where quantity supplied is greater than the quantity demanded, also known as a ..... A) Quota wedge. B) Equilibrium. C) Surplus. D) Shortage. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Surplus. 25. This occurs when the quantity demanded exceeds the quantity supplied. A) Price Floor. B) Inefficient Markets. C) Surplus. D) Shortage. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Shortage. 26. At a given price, when quantity supplied is greater than the quantity demanded, the market is experiencing a A) Correction. B) Surplus. C) Shortage. D) Equilibrium. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Surplus. 27. An increase in human capital in a worker generally leads to greater ..... A) Productivity. B) Salary/wages. C) Profit for the employer. D) All of the choices are correct. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the choices are correct. 28. A binding price floor must be placed ..... the point of equilibrium? A) Below. B) At the point of equilibrium. C) Creating a wedge between supply and demand. D) Above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Above. 29. All of the following are caused by a price ceiling EXCEPT A) A black market emerges. B) Suppliers provide a low-quality product. C) Damage done to the environment. D) People must spend extra time/money to find people to buy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Damage done to the environment. 30. Which job exists in part because time-sensitive wealthy individuals want to pay someone else to wait in line for them? A) Fast food employees. B) Truck drivers. C) Ticket scalpers. D) Construction workers. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ticket scalpers. 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