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This section includes 1337 Mcqs, each offering curated multiple-choice questions to sharpen your Economics Mcqs knowledge and support exam preparation. Choose a topic below to get started.
| 701. |
How are decisions about production made in a market economy ? |
| A. | By a command system |
| B. | According to tradition |
| C. | Through a price system |
| D. | By executive fiat |
| Answer» D. By executive fiat | |
| 702. |
Today physicians the clergy and lawyers have difficulty dealing with test tube babies and surrogate motherhood We could say that they are grappling with_________________? |
| A. | cultural advancement |
| B. | cultural change |
| C. | cultural lag |
| D. | cultural conflict |
| Answer» C. cultural lag | |
| 703. |
The Industrial Revolution began with_________________? |
| A. | the invention of a few basic machines |
| B. | the overthrow of the British |
| C. | the founding of Sony in Japan |
| D. | the proletariat in Russia |
| Answer» B. the overthrow of the British | |
| 704. |
When one culture borrows traits from another culture the borrowing culture tends to be________________? |
| A. | grateful |
| B. | selective in borrowing |
| C. | nonselective in borrowing |
| D. | gullible and impressionable |
| Answer» C. nonselective in borrowing | |
| 705. |
Which is typical of the first stage of the demographic transition ? |
| A. | high birthrates and high death rates |
| B. | high birthrates and declining death rates |
| C. | declining birthrates and high death rates |
| D. | cycles of growth and decline |
| Answer» E. | |
| 706. |
Premeditated politically motivated violence perpetrated against noncombatant targets by subnational groups or clandestine agents is the definition of_________________? |
| A. | social movements |
| B. | revolution |
| C. | coups d,etat |
| D. | terrorism |
| Answer» E. | |
| 707. |
The natural environment is_________________? |
| A. | the way humans found the earth |
| B. | the totality of natural conditions and resources that occur in a specific area |
| C. | the total complex of manmade elements in an area |
| D. | mountains oceans rivers and deserts |
| Answer» C. the total complex of manmade elements in an area | |
| 708. |
Population began to increase steadily________________? |
| A. | by around the middle of the 18th century |
| B. | with improvements in agriculture technology and medicine |
| C. | in the Bronze Age |
| D. | in the 17th century when agriculture technology and medicine |
| Answer» B. with improvements in agriculture technology and medicine | |
| 709. |
The difficulty with fighting terrorism is that_________________? |
| A. | terrorists have no single ideology |
| B. | terrorism is a transnational problem |
| C. | terrorists have differing goals |
| D. | all of the above |
| Answer» D. all of the above | |
| 710. |
Which of the following brings about cultural change_________________? |
| A. | scientific discoveries |
| B. | technological invention |
| C. | new art forms |
| D. | all of the above |
| Answer» E. | |
| 711. |
An area which is today in the first stage of the demographic transition is the following________________? |
| A. | U.S.A |
| B. | china |
| C. | Tropical Africa |
| D. | Japan |
| Answer» D. Japan | |
| 712. |
A population pyramid shows__________________? |
| A. | sex and age distribution within a population |
| B. | the relation between population and land area |
| C. | the ratio between a nation,s standard of living and its population density |
| D. | the relation between population growth and food supply |
| Answer» B. the relation between population and land area | |
| 713. |
Death rates are highest in_______________? |
| A. | tropical African |
| B. | Britain |
| C. | Turkey |
| D. | Thailand |
| Answer» B. Britain | |
| 714. |
Which Catholic nation displays high birthrates ? |
| A. | Ireland |
| B. | France |
| C. | Italy |
| D. | Mexico |
| Answer» E. | |
| 715. |
Ecology is the discipline concerned with________________? |
| A. | the growth or decline of population |
| B. | human processes such as migration |
| C. | how ideologies motivate human behavior |
| D. | the way living things relate and adjust to each other in a common habitat |
| Answer» E. | |
| 716. |
World overpopulation could be prevented by_________________? |
| A. | zero population growth worldwide |
| B. | the elimination of the demographic transition |
| C. | natural change |
| D. | a return to preindustrial medicine |
| Answer» B. the elimination of the demographic transition | |
| 717. |
According to the U.S Census Bureau a CMSA is defined as__________________? |
| A. | a relatively large dense permanent settlement of heterogeneous individuals |
| B. | any locality with a population of one million people or more |
| C. | an ecological system |
| D. | any locality with a downtown and suburbs |
| Answer» C. an ecological system | |
| 718. |
A countertrend observable since the 1950s is___________________? |
| A. | a great increase in population in the cities |
| B. | rural areas became very depopulated |
| C. | urban decentralization |
| D. | urban residents providing their own food supply by planting gardens |
| Answer» D. urban residents providing their own food supply by planting gardens | |
| 719. |
The urban trends resulting from the industrial Revolution include_________________? |
| A. | strengthening primary ties |
| B. | a return to Biblical religions |
| C. | homogeneous population |
| D. | reduced family size |
| Answer» C. homogeneous population | |
| 720. |
The crude birthrate is the_________________? |
| A. | number of births per thousand people per year |
| B. | number of births a year in the world |
| C. | the same as the fertility rate |
| D. | the same as the fecundity rate |
| Answer» B. number of births a year in the world | |
| 721. |
When farms are destroyed in favor of factories and suburbs it is an example of_____________? |
| A. | urbanization |
| B. | secularization |
| C. | popularization |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» B. secularization | |
| 722. |
Agriculture in industrial nations is now based on_________________? |
| A. | many small farmers |
| B. | greater productivity of farms because of mechanization |
| C. | increase in rural population |
| D. | artificial food production |
| Answer» C. increase in rural population | |
| 723. |
Which nation state has reached zero population growth ? |
| A. | Iran |
| B. | Zimbabwe |
| C. | the United States |
| D. | Turkey |
| Answer» D. Turkey | |
| 724. |
All religions once established consist of_________________? |
| A. | beliefs rituals and organization |
| B. | doctrine sacraments and priests |
| C. | dogma ecclesia and faith |
| D. | church clergy and believers |
| Answer» B. doctrine sacraments and priests | |
| 725. |
Gentrification is the trend of__________________? |
| A. | city dwellers learning proper manners |
| B. | middle class professionals renovating old city housing and using them as |
| C. | continued movement to suburbs |
| D. | city residents returning to manor houses in country |
| Answer» C. continued movement to suburbs | |
| 726. |
In Africa many children are_________________? |
| A. | symbols of disgrace |
| B. | social security for the future of the parents |
| C. | detested by non-Catholics |
| D. | sings of a good harvest |
| Answer» C. detested by non-Catholics | |
| 727. |
The relationship of organisms to their environments is called________________? |
| A. | physical |
| B. | chemical |
| C. | ecological |
| D. | astral |
| Answer» D. astral | |
| 728. |
Overpopulation can result in________________? |
| A. | higher literacy |
| B. | environmental damage |
| C. | price stability |
| D. | increased public services |
| Answer» C. price stability | |
| 729. |
Which elements are affected by pollution ? |
| A. | Water |
| B. | Air |
| C. | Land |
| D. | all of the above |
| Answer» E. | |
| 730. |
The largest number of statistical areas in the United States are______________? |
| A. | SMSAs |
| B. | CMSAs |
| C. | CBSAs |
| D. | MSAs |
| Answer» C. CBSAs | |
| 731. |
Marrying someone with similar traits is called_______________? |
| A. | homogamy |
| B. | heterogamy |
| C. | exogamy |
| D. | hypogamy |
| Answer» B. heterogamy | |
| 732. |
Environmental depletion is the term used to mean that________________? |
| A. | natural resources are increasing in proportion to an increased demand for them |
| B. | natural resources are decreasing as demand for them increase |
| C. | natural resources can be substituted with artificial ones |
| D. | humans are capable to adapt to other resources when the old ones disappear |
| Answer» C. natural resources can be substituted with artificial ones | |
| 733. |
Which is NOT form of plural marriage ? |
| A. | Polyandry |
| B. | Polygyny |
| C. | Polygamy |
| D. | Monogamy |
| Answer» E. | |
| 734. |
A number of celebrities in the entertainment world have been married five or six times They may be said to have had ? |
| A. | the standard number of marriages in our society |
| B. | a faulty distribution of power in their marriages |
| C. | respect for polygamy |
| D. | a negative experience of married life |
| Answer» C. respect for polygamy | |
| 735. |
Group marriage ________________? |
| A. | is widespread in several societies |
| B. | is practiced among Australian aborigines |
| C. | has been a consistent feature in Western societies |
| D. | has never been consistently or extensively practiced |
| Answer» E. | |
| 736. |
The low birthrate in the United States is related to_______________? |
| A. | able nutrition |
| B. | increased drug use |
| C. | increase of women in work force |
| D. | none of the above |
| Answer» D. none of the above | |
| 737. |
Which of the following does NOT appear to be a factor in divorce_______________? |
| A. | marriage after an engagement of over three years |
| B. | differences in occupational goals and careers |
| C. | pregnancy shortly after marriage |
| D. | dramatic differences in family backgrounds |
| Answer» C. pregnancy shortly after marriage | |
| 738. |
The family today influences_______________? |
| A. | production activities |
| B. | attitudes on politics |
| C. | hospitalization rates |
| D. | none of the above |
| Answer» C. hospitalization rates | |
| 739. |
Social scientists explain the incest taboo as_______________? |
| A. | biologically programmed |
| B. | a religious universal |
| C. | way of reducing family conflict |
| D. | all of the above |
| Answer» D. all of the above | |
| 740. |
Most societies________________? |
| A. | discourage marriage |
| B. | encourage marriage |
| C. | accept all kinds of man-women unions |
| D. | pay couples to have children |
| Answer» C. accept all kinds of man-women unions | |
| 741. |
The theologian Ludwig Feuerbach portrayed God as_______________? |
| A. | an inappropriate object of worship |
| B. | a figment of the human imagination |
| C. | a sort of ideal |
| D. | all of the above |
| Answer» C. a sort of ideal | |
| 742. |
Endogamy and exogamy are_______________? |
| A. | two social science disciplines |
| B. | ways of studying institutions |
| C. | social limitations placed on marriages |
| D. | practiced only by select groups in society |
| Answer» D. practiced only by select groups in society | |
| 743. |
The blended or reconstituted family________________? |
| A. | is considered the wave of the future |
| B. | has its own set of problems |
| C. | is the best solution to a failing institution |
| D. | only a and b |
| Answer» E. | |
| 744. |
Modern societies are grappling with the notion of_________________? |
| A. | eliminating marriage altogether |
| B. | allowing same-sex couples to marry |
| C. | lowering the age at marriage |
| D. | none of the above |
| Answer» C. lowering the age at marriage | |
| 745. |
In the 1960s some young people_______________? |
| A. | decided to return to the traditional forms of family |
| B. | saw the family as an oppressive institution |
| C. | preferred to live in communes |
| D. | chose to cohabit rather than marry |
| Answer» C. preferred to live in communes | |
| 746. |
Social scientists________________? |
| A. | provide criteria for choosing a valid religion |
| B. | neither accept nor reject claims of divine revelation |
| C. | have no interest in the content of religious doctrines |
| D. | all of the above |
| Answer» C. have no interest in the content of religious doctrines | |
| 747. |
No- fault divorce has_______________? |
| A. | left alimony awards intact |
| B. | all but eliminated alimony and somewhat decreased the average child support award |
| C. | increased child support requirements |
| D. | increased both alimony and child support awards for the first few year after divorce |
| Answer» C. increased child support requirements | |
| 748. |
Which women are most likely to report feeling unhappy after their divorce ? |
| A. | elderly women |
| B. | childless middle-aged women |
| C. | young mothers |
| D. | none of the above |
| Answer» D. none of the above | |
| 749. |
Durkheim believed that religion__________________? |
| A. | exploited the masses |
| B. | was a reflection of human society |
| C. | had nothing to do with social life |
| D. | was a radical force in society |
| Answer» C. had nothing to do with social life | |
| 750. |
Religion performs all but one of the following functions_______________? |
| A. | provides answers to basic s for which there is no other authority |
| B. | supports societal norms and values by transforming them into divine laws |
| C. | helps people deal with guilt for their transgressions offering a way back to a constructive life |
| D. | provides a single set of norms that are universally accepted and agreed upon |
| Answer» E. | |