RE 165 Real Estate Economics
Due 3/1/2012
Quiz for Chapter 2: Review of the Economic Principles of Capitalism
1. A social science concerned with how people produce,
distribute, and consume goods and services is:
A. history
B. economics
C. geography
D. political science
9. Under pure capitalism, goods and services are produced
primarily for people who:
A. need them
B. desire them
C. wish for them
D. effectively demand them
2. Famous capitalist who wrote The Wealth of Nations:
A. Karl Marx
B. John Stuart Mill
C. Thomas Jefferson
D. Adam Smith
10. In international trade, the price that the currency of one
nation brings in terms of the currency of another nation is
known as:
A. balance of payments
B. rate of exchange
C. balance of trade
D. principle of comparative advantage
3. The major economic decisions are made by a government
committee, but minor economic decisions are left to private
individuals. This describes:
A. pure socialism
B. mixed socialism
C. mixed capitalism
D. pure capitalism
4. All of the following are principles of pure capitalism,
except:
A. private property
B. laissez- faire
C. public ownership of basic resources
D. open and competitive markets for goods and
services
5. The payment for entrepreneurship is called:
A. profit
B. wages
C. interest
D. rent
6. In the circular flow of the U. S. economy, individuals go to
the resource markets as sellers and to the product and
services markets as buyers.
A. true
B. false
7. According to the law of demand, the higher the price of
homes, the more likely it is that:
A. the number of homes built will increase
B. people will buy new homes
C. the number of home sales will decline
D. the number of homes built will decline
8. In a purely competitive real estate market, if demand by
renters for apartments increases, while the number of
apartment units available for rent remains the same,
apartment rents should:
A. increase
B. decrease
C. remain in equilibrium
D. become static
11. “ No free lunch” is best explained by the concept of:
A. diminishing returns
B. opportunity costs
C. highest and best use
D. excess demand
12. Solutions to economic problems may be:
A. influenced by value judgments
B. considered an absolutely precise answer
C. reproduced uniformly with computers in a lab
D. uniformly considered correct by all citizens
13. If individuals and societies make economic choices based
on the way things have always been done, the economy is
considered:
A. communistic
B. capitalistic
C. socialistic
D. traditional
14. According to the theory of pure capitalism, how goods
and services are produced is determined by:
A. buyer’s demand
B. the lowest possible production cost
C. who has the most money to spend
D. government committees
15. Which economist predicted that capitalism was doomed
to fail, because profit motivation would lower wages to a
subsistence level, leading workers to overthrow the
capitalistic system?
A. Karl Marx
B. John Stuart Mill
C. John Maynard Keynes
D. Adam Smith
16. A command economy is commonly called:
A. traditionalism
B. capitalism
C. socialism
D. opportunism
17. Regarding the circular flow of the economy, which of the
following is true?
A. Individuals and households sell goods and services
and receive income.
B. Business supplies resources and receives wages.
C. The product market is where the factors of
production are exchanged.
D. In the resource market, land, labor, capital, and
business skills are exchanged for income.
18. A place in which buyers and sellers meet to bargain and
exchange items of value at negotiated prices is called:
A. a market
B. an economy
C. gross domestic product
D. derived demand
19. A change or shift in supply is caused by a change in:
A. the cost of the factors of production
B. population
C. consumer tastes
D. the amount of advertising
20. In a given real estate market, if the demand for
commercial office space declines and the supply of office
space also declines at the same ratio, market rent per square
foot should:
A. increase
B. decrease
C. remain the same
D. shift to the right
21. That point at which supply and demand are matched at a
price that will clear the market is called:
A. open
B. equilibrium
C. comparative advantage
D. surplus
22. The total quantity that buyers are willing to buy at a given
time at certain prices is called:
A. supply
B. demand
C. equilibrium
D. perfect competition
23. A summary of all transactions between the citizens of one
nation and the citizens of all other countries is called:
A. free trade
B. rate of exchange
C. balance of trade
D. balance of payments
24. In the short run, the lower the value of the U. S. dollar
versus the Japanese yen, the:
A. more attractive American products are to the
Japanese
B. less likely Japanese investors will buy U. S. real
estate
C. more likely U. S. citizens will purchase Japanese
products
D. more likely the price of U. S. exports will rise in
the Japanese market
25. Economic theory states that the United States can
become self-sufficient, with no need for international trade, if
the United States is willing to:
A. drive up the price of domestic consumer goods
and services
B. limit the economic choices of U. S. citizens
C. cancel all trade agreements
D. do all of the above