Class 11 Economics Practice Questions

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Q1. Microeconomics studies the economic behaviour of: 📊

  1. Individual units like households and firms
  2. National income
  3. The entire economy
  4. Government spending
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A. Individual units like households and firms

Q2. The law of demand states that, other things being equal, as price increases: 📊

  1. Demand decreases
  2. Demand stays constant
  3. Demand increases
  4. Supply decreases
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A. Demand decreases

Q3. Statistics in economics is primarily used for: 📊

  1. Collecting and interpreting economic data
  2. Predicting weather patterns
  3. Writing government policies
  4. Literary analysis
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A. Collecting and interpreting economic data

Q4. The central problem of economics arises because of: 📊

  1. Scarcity of resources
  2. Lack of government regulation
  3. Overproduction of goods
  4. Unlimited resources
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A. Scarcity of resources

Q5. A perfectly competitive market has: 📊

  1. One seller
  2. Few buyers and sellers
  3. Many buyers and sellers with homogeneous products
  4. Government-controlled prices
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C. Many buyers and sellers with homogeneous products

Q6. Mean of the data set {4, 8, 6, 10, 2} is: 📊

  1. 8
  2. 5
  3. 6
  4. 7
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C. 6

Q7. Opportunity cost is defined as: 📊

  1. Total expenditure on goods
  2. The value of the next best alternative foregone
  3. The cost of production
  4. The price of a good in the market
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B. The value of the next best alternative foregone

Q8. Which of the following is NOT a factor of production? 📊

  1. Money
  2. Labour
  3. Land
  4. Capital
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A. Money

Q9. The median of the data {3, 5, 7, 9, 11} is: 📊

  1. 7
  2. 9
  3. 6
  4. 5
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A. 7

Q10. When supply exceeds demand, the market price tends to: 📊

  1. Remain the same
  2. Fall
  3. Rise
  4. Double
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B. Fall

Q11. The branch of economics that studies individual units like households and firms is:

  1. Microeconomics
  2. Macroeconomics
  3. Statistics
  4. Accountancy
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A. Microeconomics

Q12. A market structure with only one seller is called:

  1. Perfect competition
  2. Monopoly
  3. Oligopoly
  4. Duopoly
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B. Monopoly

Q13. The desire for a good backed by ability and willingness to pay is called:

  1. Supply
  2. Utility
  3. Demand
  4. Cost
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C. Demand

Q14. The branch of economics that studies the economy as a whole (GDP, inflation) is:

  1. Microeconomics
  2. Book-keeping
  3. Marketing
  4. Macroeconomics
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D. Macroeconomics

Q15. The total market value of all final goods and services produced in a country in a year is called:

  1. GDP
  2. CPI
  3. EMI
  4. GST
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A. GDP

Q16. Which is the central bank of India?

  1. State Bank of India
  2. Reserve Bank of India
  3. SEBI
  4. NABARD
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B. Reserve Bank of India

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