This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Economics > Systems > Types > Economic Systems – Quiz 16 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Economic Systems Quiz 16 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Who owns the resources in a command economy? A) The government. B) Individuals. C) Private business. D) No one. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The government. 2. In a traditional economic system, the question of what to produce is answered by producing: A) What the government chooses. B) What consumers need and want. C) What supply dictates. D) What has always been produced. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) What has always been produced. 3. The food supply is rationed, or divided, so everyone gets the same amount. The government is in charge of this: A) Command. B) Market. C) Mixed. D) Traditional. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Command. 4. Which is NOT an economic goal of the free market? A) Economic efficiency. B) Economic freedom. C) Economic growth and innovation. D) Economic equity. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Economic equity. 5. A benefit of technology is that it A) Slows or stops production. B) Increases productivity. C) Decreases a nation's GDP. D) Makes certain jobs obsolete. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Increases productivity. 6. Money spent or cost incurred in an organization's efforts to generate revenue, representing the cost of doing business A) Cost of Goods. B) Income. C) Expenses. D) Profit. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Expenses. 7. Government in which the government owns all property A) Communism. B) Traditional economy. C) Command economy. D) Socialism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Communism. 8. When Fresh Express Salads decides to mechanically pick all of its lettuce, it directly answers the ..... question. A) What. B) How. C) For whom. D) Where. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) How. 9. In which of the following economic systems does the government own the country's farms, factories, and businesses? A) Free Enterprise. B) Communist. C) Socialist. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Communist. 10. People freely and willingly engaging in market transactions A) Consumer sovereignty. B) Voluntary exchange. C) Modified free enterprise. D) Coercion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Voluntary exchange. 11. Which economic system is most likely to be used in a country that doesn't trade much with other countries? A) Traditional. B) Mixed. C) Command. D) Market. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Traditional. 12. Competition, entrepreneurship, and extreme wealth would most likely exist in which of the economic systems below A) Traditional. B) Free-market Capitalism. C) Centrally-planned Command. D) Equitorial. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Free-market Capitalism. 13. In this system the government is always a one-party dictatorship where people have few rights. A) Communism. B) Capitalism. C) Socialism. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Communism. 14. When the product is produced for the current generation it is what type of economy? A) Mixed. B) Market. C) Traditional. D) Command. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Traditional. 15. Who owns the factors of production in the competitive economic system of capitalism? A) Private citizens. B) The government. C) Central planning agency. D) Coach Landis. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Private citizens. 16. Inputs needed to produce a good or service. A) Wants. B) Goods. C) Services. D) Factors of production. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Factors of production. 17. What is the invisible hand? A) The self-regulating nature of the market place. B) Competition being the regulating force in the market place. C) Self-interest motivating the market place. D) The equal distribution of wealth. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The self-regulating nature of the market place. 18. Different nations interacting through people, government, business, trade & technology is A) Communism. B) Globalization. C) Socialism. D) Supply and Demand. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Globalization. 19. What is NOT true about communism? A) People were rich. B) No one could own property. C) People were poor. D) People had very little freedoms. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) People were rich. 20. Laissez-faire capitalism as attributed to Adam Smith called for A) Heavy taxation of manufacturers. B) Minimal government involvement in the economy. C) Strict government control of the economy. D) Government investments in major industries. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Minimal government involvement in the economy. 21. People or businesses that buy or use goods or services are known as A) Producers. B) Consumers. C) Economists. D) Entrepreneur. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Consumers. 22. Which of the basic economic systems allow government to control most aspects of the economy? A) Mixed. B) Command. C) Market. D) Traditional. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Command. 23. Which of the following best describe a tariff? A) A tax placed on goods imported from a country. B) A ban placed on all trade with a particular country. C) A tax on exported goods paid to the exporting government. D) A limit on the amount of goods that can be imported from a country. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A tax placed on goods imported from a country. 24. Economic system where individuals (producers and consumers) answer the three basic economic questions: A) Market. B) Command. C) Traditional. D) Modern or Mixed. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Market. 25. North Korea has what type of economic system? Hint:their government controls every aspect of the economy A) Traditional. B) Socialist. C) Market. D) Command. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Command. 26. This characteristic of a Mixed Economy describes the natural rivalry created when two businesses offer the same, or similar, goods. A) Competition. B) Freedom of Enterprise and Choice. C) Private Property. D) Motive of Self-Interest. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Competition. 27. An advantage of this economic system is:the variety of goods and services that are produced. A) Traditional. B) Command. C) Capitalism/Market. D) Socialist. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Capitalism/Market. 28. Whenever you are faced with a choice, the value of the next best alternative (whatever you've chosen to give up or sacrifice) is called: A) Scarcity. B) Supply and Demand. C) Opportunity Cost. D) Profit. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Opportunity Cost. 29. This economic system is described as "The Government's Way" A) Traditional. B) Command. C) Mixed. D) Market. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Command. 30. In a socialist economic system, who tends to answer the question of how products will be produced? A) Government and business. B) Government and individuals. C) Business and individuals. D) Tradition and government. 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