This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Systems > Types > Economic Systems – Quiz 30 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Economic Systems Quiz 30 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. During the 1800s, the writings of Marx, Engels, and Dickens focused attention on the problems faced by A) Factory owners. B) Investment bankers. C) Farm laborers. D) Industrial workers. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Industrial workers. 2. Which is the central characteristic of a free market economy? A) The government owns the means of production. B) All wage earners are paid the same amount. C) Labor unions are prohibited. D) Businesses are driven by the desire for profits. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Businesses are driven by the desire for profits. 3. Citizens receive a free college education, but also have freedom to make their own career and business decisions A) Mixed. B) Market. C) Command. D) Traditional. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mixed. 4. An disadvantage of this economic system is:that it tends to discourage new ideas and new ways of doing things. A) Traditional. B) Command. C) Capitalism/Market. D) Socialist. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Traditional. 5. This economic system has government rules to protect consumers but also allows freedom for consumers to make economic choices. A) Traditional. B) Command. C) Market. D) Mixed. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mixed. 6. The United States economy is one in which producers are generally free to produce what they want, and consumers are free to purchase what they desire, so long as no laws are broken. A) Market Economy. B) Command Economy. C) Liberated Economy. D) Mixed Market Economy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mixed Market Economy. 7. In which situation would you increase your price if you were a business owner? A) Your supply increase and your demand increase. B) Your supply decrease and your demand increase. C) Your demand decrease and your supply stay the same. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Your supply decrease and your demand increase. 8. ..... plays a small role in a market economy. A) Private business. B) Tradition. C) The government. D) The president. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The government. 9. The method used by a society to produce and distribute goods and services. A) Free Enterprise. B) Consumer Sovereignty. C) Economic System. D) Market. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Economic System. 10. Goods that are used to produce other goods are called ..... A) Consumer goods. B) Private property. C) Producer goods. D) Competition. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Producer goods. 11. Which of the following is an economic and political system where the government plans and controls a country's economy (including production and distribution of goods)? A) Free Enterprise. B) Communist. C) Socialist. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Communist. 12. People use the resources they have to make only what they need to survive. A) Market Economy. B) Traditional Economy. C) Command Economy. D) Mixed Economy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Traditional Economy. 13. ..... are a positive incentive for entrepreneurs to start a business despite the risks. A) Pride. B) Wealth. C) Profits. D) Being an employer. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Profits. 14. A system that uses bartering or trading. A) Mixed. B) Market. C) Traditional. D) Command. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Traditional. 15. Based on traditions A) Command. B) Traditional. C) Market. D) Mixed. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Traditional. 16. In a communist command economy, who decides how the economic questions will be answered? A) Businesses. B) Individuals. C) Government. D) A venture team. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Government. 17. Which group controls goods and services in a communist economic system? A) Farmers. B) Government Officials. C) Consumers. D) Business leaders. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Government Officials. 18. When supply and demand decides what the market produces it is what type of economy? A) Market. B) Command. C) Mixed. D) Traditional. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Market. 19. Who were the fathers of Communism and Capitalism, respectively? A) Locke and Voltaire. B) Meiji and Tokugawa. C) Marx and Smith. D) Cavour and Garabaldi. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Marx and Smith. 20. The United States economy is based on this system: A) Command. B) Market. C) Traditional. D) Socialist. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Market. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesSystems QuizzesEconomic Systems Quiz 1Economic Systems Quiz 2Economic Systems Quiz 3Economic Systems Quiz 4Economic Systems Quiz 5Economic Systems Quiz 6Economic Systems Quiz 7Economic Systems Quiz 8Economic Systems Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books