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Principles of Macroeconomics Sixth Canadian Edition
Test Bank by N Gregory Mankiw Ronald D Kneebone
Kenneth J McKenzie 2025/ 2026

Chapter 1-17




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Chapter 1—Ten Principles of Economics


MULTIPLE CHOICE

1. Which word comes from the Greek word for “one who manages a household”?
a. market
b. consumer
c. producer
d. economy
ANS: D PTS: 1 DIF: Easy REF: p. 3-4
BLM: Remember NOT: Macro TB_1

2. From which Greek word(s) is the word economy derived?
a. environment
b. one who manages a household
c. one who participates in a market
d. conservation
ANS: B PTS: 1 DIF: Easy REF: p. 3-4
BLM: Remember NOT: Macro TB_2

3. What do households and economies have in common?
a. They both must allocate scarce resources.
b. They both face many decisions.
c. They both must allocate the goods and services they produce.
d. They both must have a central decision maker.
ANS: D PTS: 1 DIF: Average REF: p. 3-4
BLM: Remember NOT: Macro TB_3

4. What concept does economics primarily deal with?
a. scarcity
b. poverty
c. change
d. power

ANS: A PTS: 1 DIF: Easy REF: p. 4
BLM: Remember NOT: Macro TB_4

5. Which of the following is NOT included in the decisions that every society must make?
a. what goods will be produced
b. who will produce the goods
c. what determines consumer preferences
d. who will consume the goods
ANS: C PTS: 1 DIF: Average REF: p. 4
BLM: Remember NOT: Macro TB_5




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6.Why do both households and societies face many decisions?
a. because resources are scarce
b. because populations may increase or decrease over time
c. because wages for households and therefore society fluctuate with business cycles
d. because people, by nature, tend to disagree
ANS: A PTS: 1 DIF: Average REF: p. 4
BLM: Remember NOT: Macro TB_6

7. When is a good considered scarce in a society?
a. when more output of the good is possible
b. when everyone in that society cannot have all they want of the good
c. when the government restricts production of the good
d. when only the richest people in the economy can buy all they want of the good

ANS: B PTS: 1 DIF: Average REF: p. 4
BLM: Remember NOT: Macro TB_7

8. When does scarcity exist?
a. when there is less than an infinite amount of a resource or good
b. when society can meet the wants of every individual
c. when there is less of a good or resource available than people wish to have
d. when the government fails to produce goods
ANS: C PTS: 1 DIF: Average REF: p. 4
BLM: Remember NOT: Macro TB_8

9. How are goods and services allocated in a market economy?
a. by government decisions
b. by giving each individual just enough for a decent standard of living
c. by the actions of all firms and consumers
d. by inherited rights and properties
ANS: C PTS: 1 DIF: Average REF: p. 4
BLM: Higher Order NOT: Macro TB_9

10. Approximately what percentage of the world’s economies experience scarcity?
a. 25%
b. 50%
c. 75%
d. 100%

ANS: D PTS: 1 DIF: Easy REF: p. 4
BLM: Remember NOT: Macro TB_10

11. What is the economy experiencing when a society cannot produce all the goods and services people
wish to have?
a. scarcity
b. communism
c. externalities
d. market failure

ANS: A PTS: 1 DIF: Easy REF: p. 4
BLM: Higher Order NOT: Macro TB_11

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12. For society, when is a good NOT scarce?
a. if at least one individual in society can obtain all he or she wants of the good
b. if firms are producing at full capacity
c. if all members of society can have all they want of the good
d. if those who have enough income can buy all they want of the good
ANS: C PTS: 1 DIF: Average REF: p. 4
BLM: Higher Order NOT: Macro TB_12

13. Which of the following goods best meets the definition of scarcity?
a. air
b. water in the ocean
c. water in a city
d. wood in a forest

ANS: C PTS: 1 DIF: Average REF: p. 4
BLM: Remember NOT: Macro TB_13

14. What does economics study?
a. business
b. how society manages its scarce resources
c. central planning
d. government regulation
ANS: B PTS: 1 DIF: Easy REF: p. 4
BLM: Remember NOT: Macro TB_14

15. What does economics study?
a. how society manages its scarce resources
b. the government’s role in society
c. how to increase production
d. how firms make profits

ANS: A PTS: 1 DIF: Easy REF: p. 4
BLM: Remember NOT: Macro TB_15

16. In most societies, who allocates resources?
a. a single central planner
b. those who own the resources
c. those firms that use resources to provide goods and services
d. the combined actions of millions of households and firms

ANS: D PTS: 1 DIF: Average REF: p. 4
BLM: Remember NOT: Macro TB_16

17. What do economists study?
a. how people make decisions
b. how governments interact with one another
c. the forces and trends that affect only the economy as a whole
d. how societies change over time
ANS: D PTS: 1 DIF: Average REF: p. 4
BLM: Remember NOT: Macro TB_17

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