SS3 Mock Examinations
  • 1. What is the fundamental economic problem?
A) Scarcity
B) Poverty
C) Unemployment
D) Inflation
  • 2. Which economic system is characterized by private ownership?
A) Socialist
B) Command
C) Capitalist
D) Mixed
  • 3. What type of market structure has many buyers and sellers?
A) Monopoly
B) Perfect Competition
C) Oligopoly
D) Monopsony
  • 4. What is the purpose of fiscal policy?
A) To reduce unemployment
B) To control inflation
C) To promote economic growth
D) All of the above
  • 5. A Minimum price legislation is also called
A) Price mechanism
B) Price floor
C) Price control
D) Price Ceiling
  • 6. Which of the following factors is not a cause of change in demand? Changes in
A) taste and fashion
B) price of the commodity
C) income distribution
D) the size of the population
  • 7. If the quantity demanded of a commodity increases from 20 units to 30 units when there is an increase in price from $4.00 to $5.00, the elasticity of demand is
A) 2.50
B) 0.65
C) 0.50
D) 2.00
  • 8. The use of the bank rate, cash ratio and open market operations constitute
A) fiscal policy
B) monetary policy
C) import policy
D) export policy
  • 9. Scale of Preference shows
A) consumer’s wants in order of priority
B) Incomes of consumer in order of size
C) utilities enjoyed by consumers
D) opportunity cost of goods consumed
  • 10. Gross National Product (GNP) less the provision for the wear and tear of assets is the
A) net factor income
B) net indirect taxes
C) net present value
D) net national product
  • 11. In perfectly elastic supply, the supply curve
A) Is Horizontal
B) Slopes upward
C) Is Vertical
D) Slopes downward
  • 12. An example of transfer payments in national income accounting is
A) the amount paid to a worker on transfer
B) unemployment allowance paid to the citizens
C) money transferred to another country
D) transfer of funds from one bank to another
  • 13. Which of the following industries will add more value to primary products?
A) Mining industry
B) Service industry
C) Processing industry
D) Construction industry
  • 14. A consumer of a single commodity is in equilibrium when
A) he can equate his marginal and total utilities
B) he can equate his demand with price
C) his marginal utility is equal to zero
D) he equates marginal utility and price
  • 15. Foreign investment and long term securities in the balance of payment accounts are recorded as
A) balance of trade account transaction
B) capital account transaction
C) current account transaction
D) invisible balance account transaction
  • 16. A benefit that is present in all forms of economic integration is that
A) the size of the market is widened
B) common agricultural policy is in place
C) common currency is in use
D) factors of production are free to move and be moved
  • 17. Points within a Production Possibilities Curve (PPC) indicate
A) attainable but inefficient production levels.
B) optimum production levels.
C) attainable and efficient production levels.
D) unattainable production levels.
  • 18. Which of the following is not a feature of labour?
A) it’s efficiency depends on its size
B) it’s reward is wages and salaries
C) it is an active factor
D) it is highly mobile
  • 19. The pursuit of private profits is a feature of
A) statutory corporations
B) socialist economies
C) capitalist economies
D) command economies
  • 20. A major feature of the socialist economic system is
A) private ownership of productive inputs.
B) freedom of choice for consumers.
C) setting of production targets by public authorities.
D) determination of price by market forces.
  • 21. If the budget on education is $50 m out of an annual national budget of $300 m. The sector of a pie chart representing education is
A) 16.6°
B) 60°
C) 150°
D) 300°
  • 22. Price elasticity of demand is the responsiveness of quantity demanded to a change in
A) price of another product
B) price of the product
C) demand for the product
D) income of the buyer
  • 23. When total revenue increases as price falls, the coefficient of price elasticity of demand is
A) less than one
B) one
C) zero
D) greater than one
  • 24. If the quantity demanded of rice de- creased from 150 bags to 100 bags, the percentage change in quantity demanded is
A) 33.3%
B) 80%
C) 65%
D) 30%
  • 25. The law of demand will not hold when
A) normal goods are involved
B) size of the population changes
C) rare commodities are involved
D) income and consumers increase
  • 26. The diagram above shows the demand for milk. Use it to answer questions this question.



    The movement from point x to z might have been caused by
A) a change in taste in favour of milk
B) a favorable weather condition
C) a decrease in the price of milk
D) an increase in income of consumers
  • 27. The diagram above shows the demand for milk. Use it to answer this question.

    If demand for postal services decline as a result of increased use of e-mails, then the two services are in
A) derived demand
B) competitive demand
C) composite demand
D) complementary demand
  • 28. Other things being equal, an increase in the demand for land in the short-run will cause an increase in the
A) price only
B) quantity supplied only
C) price and supply
D) supply only
  • 29. If the coefficient of price elasticity of supply of a commodity is 0.8, then supply is
A) perfectly inelastic
B) fairly inelastic
C) fairly elastic
D) perfectly elastic
  • 30. The negative slope of the demand curve is best explained by
A) consumer’s choice
B) diminishing returns to scale
C) increasing return to scale
D) diminishing marginal utility
  • 31. Minimum price legislation is used to protect the interests of
A) government
B) consumers
C) foreign companies
D) small scale producers
  • 32. Which of the following best explains diseconomies of scale? Increase in output causes the
A) marginal cost to fall
B) marginal revenue to fall
C) firm to be de-stabilized
D) average cost to rise
  • 33. In the short-run, a firm can increase output by
A) purchasing more equipments
B) changing its organizational structure
C) increasing the size of its machines
D) increasing the quantity of raw materials
  • 34. The fixed cost of producing 100 units of a good is $600. If the variable cost is $400. the average total cost of one unit of the good is
A) $4
B) $8
C) $10
D) $15
  • 35. Firms in perfect competition break even in the long-run because
A) profits are not enough to repay traders' loans.
B) more firms can enter the industry due to attractive prof its.
C) marginal revenue is greater than marginal cost at all levels.
D) new firms can not enter the market due to copyright laws.
  • 36. The government policy that encourages public corporations to operate profitably is
A) liberalization
B) nationalization
C) commercialization
D) indigenization
  • 37. Warehousing of goods in the process of distribution is the function of
A) retailers
B) departmental stores
C) wholesalers
D) supermarkets
  • 38. The supply of labour to an occupation will tend to rise when
A) there are less monetary benefits
B) unemployment benefit rises
C) welfare packages improve
D) holiday entitlement is cut
  • 39. In determining the growth of a country's population, infant mortality is a component of
A) death rate
B) fertility rate
C) immigration rate
D) net migration
  • 40. The low productivity per worker in agriculture experienced in West African countries is due to
A) the law of increasing returns to scale
B) the presence of many extension workers
C) the use of simple traditional implements
D) laziness on the part of farmers
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