Business Cycles
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1. What is a business cycle?
,A. Long-term economic growth trend
B. Fluctuations in economic activity over
time
C. Government budgeting process
D. Stock market regulation
Answer: B
Rationale: Business cycles refer to
expansions and contractions in economic
activity.
2. Which is NOT a phase of the business
cycle?
A. Expansion
B. Peak
,C. Depression
D. Innovation
Answer: D
Rationale: Innovation is not a cycle
phase.
3. The highest point of a business cycle
is called:
A. Trough
B. Recession
C. Peak
D. Recovery
Answer: C
Rationale: Peak is the maximum
economic activity point.
, 4. The lowest point of a business cycle
is:
A. Boom
B. Trough
C. Peak
D. Expansion
Answer: B
Rationale: Trough represents the bottom
of economic activity.
5. A recession is typically defined as:
A. 1 month of decline
B. 2 consecutive quarters of declining
GDP
Practice 2026-VERSION
WITH QUALITY
QUESTIONS AND
VERIFIED ANSWERS
WITH RATIONALES
AND AVAILABLE
DOWNLOAD PDF.
1. What is a business cycle?
,A. Long-term economic growth trend
B. Fluctuations in economic activity over
time
C. Government budgeting process
D. Stock market regulation
Answer: B
Rationale: Business cycles refer to
expansions and contractions in economic
activity.
2. Which is NOT a phase of the business
cycle?
A. Expansion
B. Peak
,C. Depression
D. Innovation
Answer: D
Rationale: Innovation is not a cycle
phase.
3. The highest point of a business cycle
is called:
A. Trough
B. Recession
C. Peak
D. Recovery
Answer: C
Rationale: Peak is the maximum
economic activity point.
, 4. The lowest point of a business cycle
is:
A. Boom
B. Trough
C. Peak
D. Expansion
Answer: B
Rationale: Trough represents the bottom
of economic activity.
5. A recession is typically defined as:
A. 1 month of decline
B. 2 consecutive quarters of declining
GDP
