All Free Economics MCQs with Answers

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  • A. Encroachment
  • B. Monotony
  • C. Unipolarity
  • D. Monopoly

Explanation: A monopoly gives one person or group exclusive control over supplying a particular good, service, or branch of trade.

Correct answer: Monopoly
  • A. small units, including individual companies and small group of consumers
  • B. Economics of homes
  • C. Economics of stock market
  • D. Economics of provinces

Explanation: Microeconomics studies individual decision-making units, such as households, consumers, firms, and particular markets.

Correct answer: small units, including individual companies and small group of consumers
  • A. Rise in the price of an item for sale
  • B. An amount added to cost price in calculating selling price
  • C. Both of them
  • D. All of them

Explanation: A mark-up is the amount added to the cost price to obtain the selling price, and it represents the resulting increase over cost.

Correct answer: Both of them
  • A. Limited company
  • B. Incorporation
  • C. Cooperative
  • D. Corporation

Explanation: In a limited company, each shareholder's liability is restricted to the unpaid amount on their shares or the amount they agreed to…

Correct answer: Limited company
  • A. to make queue
  • B. items are removed in inverse order
  • C. turn by turn
  • D. make space for new production

Explanation: LIFO means that the most recently added item is treated as the first one removed, so items leave in the reverse order of their entry.

Correct answer: items are removed in inverse order
  • A. Letter of intent
  • B. Letter of Credit
  • C. Letter of Expression
  • D. Papers of Landing

Explanation: A letter of intent is a written statement showing that the parties intend to enter into a later formal agreement.

Correct answer: Letter of intent
  • A. Free market economy
  • B. Laissez faire also Laisser faire
  • C. Open market economy
  • D. Liberal market economy

Explanation: Laissez-faire advocates minimal government interference in commerce, allowing prices and production to be guided mainly by market forces.

Correct answer: Laissez faire also Laisser faire
  • A. Payment made for the use of another person's money
  • B. payment made for the use of bank's money
  • C. Share in profit
  • D. Devaluation in the currency

Explanation: Interest is the payment made by a borrower for using money belonging to another party, usually a lender.

Correct answer: Payment made for the use of another person's money
  • A. Hire and Fire
  • B. Rent
  • C. Transportation Changes
  • D. Freight

Explanation: Freight is the charge paid for transporting goods by ship, rail, road, or air.

Correct answer: Freight
  • A. A privilege or right officially granted by a person or group by a government
  • B. Authorization granted to someone to sell or distribute a company's goods or service in certain area
  • C. Territory or limits within which immunity, privilege or right may be exercised
  • D. All of the above

Explanation: A franchise may mean a granted privilege, authorization to operate or distribute goods under a company's name, or the territory in which…

Correct answer: All of the above
  • A. Floor price
  • B. Fixed price
  • C. Bid price
  • D. Basic price

Explanation: A price floor is a government-imposed minimum price, often intended to protect producers from prices falling below a viable level.

Correct answer: Floor price
  • A. FIFO (first in first out)
  • B. LAFO (last in first out)
  • C. First come First serve
  • D. None of these

Explanation: FIFO assumes that the earliest inventory purchased is sold first, leaving the newest purchases in closing stock.

Correct answer: FIFO (first in first out)
  • A. To verify signature
  • B. To verify the person holding cheque
  • C. To sign one's name upon the back of cheque
  • D. To sign one's name upon the front of cheque

Explanation: To endorse a cheque means to sign one's name on its back, usually to transfer it or authorize its payment.

Correct answer: To sign one's name upon the back of cheque
  • A. Divided Labor
  • B. Closed shop
  • C. Division of Labor
  • D. Open shop

Explanation: Division of labor is the separation of production into specialized tasks performed by different workers or groups.

Correct answer: Division of Labor
  • A. legal instrument used to grand a right
  • B. Something done
  • C. legal instrument
  • D. none of the above

Explanation: A deed is a formal legal instrument used to create, transfer, or grant a right, especially an interest in property.

Correct answer: legal instrument used to grand a right
  • A. Saving Account
  • B. Fixed account
  • C. Current account
  • D. Fluctuated account

Explanation: A current account is designed for frequent transactions and can generally be operated whenever the account holder wishes.

Correct answer: Current account
  • A. cost plus
  • B. Cost effective
  • C. End price
  • D. Consumer price

Explanation: Cost-plus pricing adds a predetermined profit margin to the cost of producing the good. This is why the resulting price is called cost plus.

Correct answer: cost plus
  • A. Cheap things
  • B. Substandard things
  • C. Economical in terms of the goods or services received for the money spent
  • D. Free in terms of the goods or services received for the money spent

Explanation: Cost-effective means obtaining the greatest or suitable value in goods or services for the money spent.

Correct answer: Economical in terms of the goods or services received for the money spent
  • A. Company
  • B. Corporation
  • C. Cooperative
  • D. Limited Company

Explanation: A corporation is a legally created organization treated as a separate entity from its members, which allows it to own property and conduct…

Correct answer: Corporation
  • A. Limited company
  • B. Society
  • C. Corporation
  • D. Cooperative

Explanation: A cooperative is owned or managed by the people who use its facilities or services, such as consumer, producer, or credit cooperatives.

Correct answer: Cooperative