This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Economics > Systems > Types > Economic Systems – Quiz 15 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Economic Systems Quiz 15 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What kind of resource is a teacher? A) Cultural. B) Human. C) Capital Goods. D) Natural. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Human. 2. Government owns the means of production. A) Traditional. B) Command. C) Market. D) Mixed. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Command. 3. Rapid organization of resources often means command economies forget other societal needs, and they often produce too much of one thing and not enough of another. Which disadvantage does this belong to? A) Command. B) Traditional. C) Mixed. D) Market. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Command. 4. Which of the following is NOT one of the three basic questions used to determine a country's economic system? A) What to produce?. B) When to produce?. C) How to produce?. D) For whom to produce?. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) When to produce?. 5. Supply & demand is a principle that fits which type of economic system? A) Socialism. B) Free enterprise. C) Communism. D) Traditional. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Free enterprise. 6. In a command economy, economic decisions are made by the A) Government. B) Market. C) Producers. D) Consumers. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Government. 7. Economic system where the government answers all three basic economic questions: A) Market. B) Command. C) Traditional. D) Modern or Mixed. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Command. 8. Most democratic countries have what type of economic system? A) Mixed. B) Market. C) Command. D) Traditional. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mixed. 9. A system of producing, distributing, and consuming goods and services is known as a A) Constitution. B) Culture. C) Government. D) Economy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Economy. 10. Price set by the government A) Traditional economic system. B) Command economic system. C) Pure economy. D) Market economy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Command economic system. 11. This economic system lacks incentive for individuals because a central authority controls the factors of production; there is no private property. A) Traditional. B) Command. C) Market. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Command. 12. Which economic system is the most competitive? A) Traditional. B) Market. C) Mixed. D) Command. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Market. 13. Sometimes consumers buy less of oneproduct because they buy a similarproduct at a lower price. What pattern ofbehavior does this example reflect? A) Law of demand. B) Income effect. C) Law of diminishing marginal utility. D) Substitution effect. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Substitution effect. 14. Which of the following is not a fundamental economic question? A) What should be produced?. B) How should the products be distributed?. C) Who should get it?. D) How should it be produced?. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) How should the products be distributed?. 15. Allows each member of society to make choices about how to use their resources A) Security. B) Satbiility. C) Freedom. D) Efficiency. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Freedom. 16. The income people receive for supplying factors of production, such as land, labor or capital. A) Profit. B) Free Enterprise. C) Incentive. D) Factor Payments. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Factor Payments. 17. Which of the following would NEVER happen in a TRULY communist society? A) People will work. B) Private property will be abolished. C) People would be of the same social class. D) Some people will be richer than other people. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Some people will be richer than other people. 18. An economic system in which the means of production is owned by the government and private ownership doesn't exist. A) Imperialism. B) Communism. C) Socialism. D) Capitalism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Communism. 19. What is/are the basic question(s) all economic systems try to answer? A) What (and how much) to produce?. B) How to produce?. C) For whom to produce? (How to distribute income?). D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 20. Choose the correct examples of a primary activity. A) Truck driver, doctor, store clerk, restaurant. B) Manufacturing and construction. C) Mining, agriculture, fishing. D) Research and data processing. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mining, agriculture, fishing. 21. A farmer owns two cows and can sell the milk to any dairy. A) Communism. B) Capitalism. C) Socialism. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Capitalism. 22. In a "pure" communist society, who are the wealthiest and most powerful people? A) Intellectuals. B) Military leaders. C) Business leaders. D) No One every member of society is supposed to be equal. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) No One every member of society is supposed to be equal. 23. Consumers make economic decisions A) Traditional economic system. B) Command economic system. C) Mixed economic system. D) Market economic system. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Market economic system. 24. Which of the following is NOT one of the characteristics of a command economy? A) Change direction drastically in short period of time. B) Provides few incentives for productive work. C) It is designed to meet the wants of consumers. D) No private property rights. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It is designed to meet the wants of consumers. 25. Government creates program to retrain workers who have lost their jobs to overseas workers. A) Economic Equity. B) Economic Growth. C) Economic Security. D) Economic Stability. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Economic Security. 26. In a free market economy, people A) Can choose what to buy and sell. B) Must buy their fruits and vegetables at a farmers' market. C) Have to do all of their shopping on Amazon.com. D) Do not get to choose what jobs they have when they grow up. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Can choose what to buy and sell. 27. Waiting in line to get the limited amount of items available. A) 1st Come-1st Serve. B) Command. C) Lottery. D) Rationing. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1st Come-1st Serve. 28. This economic system has a notable lack of government interference. A) Traditional. B) Command. C) Market. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Market. 29. What are two types of products in any economy? A) Businesses & technology. B) Farming & technology. C) Goods & services. D) Computers & automobiles. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Goods & services. 30. Who or what answers the basic economic questions in a command economy? A) Individuals and businesses. B) Government. C) Individuals. D) Businesses. 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