AP Microeconomics Unit 2 Practice Test

1) Of the following, which is the best representation of a positive externality?

2) Allocative efficiency

3) Which of the following is a fundamental economic question?

4)

Company A and Company B above operate in a non-collusive oligopolistic market. Each needs to decide whether to have a large or small advertising strategy. According to the data, the dominant strategy for Company A and Company B would be

5)

In the graph above, the shift in the supply curve from S to S1 for ice cream could occur because

6) If the market for corn is competitive, then

7) Company A and Company B are competing firms that are deciding whether or not to expand their operations. The payoff matrix provided shows the profit to be earned (expressed in thousands) from any decision that is made. Based on the data provided

8) A monopoly is less efficient than a perfect competitor because

9) In the market for goods and services in the circular flow diagram, households

10) Scarcity

11) Compared to a command economy, a capitalist economy emphasizes

12) If the relative price of coffee rises due to a change in tastes in a capitalist society, then

13) Consider a profit-maximizing firm in a perfectly competitive market with several sellers and several buyers (i.e., the firm is a “price taker” of the goods it sells and a “price taker” of the hourly wages it pays its workers). If a technological innovation made by someone in this firm were to significantly raise the firm’s marginal physical product (but not that of any other firm’s), then this innovation would

14) If residents of a city oppose a new highway being built through local neighborhoods, what economic concept best describes their opposition?

15) A competitive firm’s demand for labor is determined directly by

16) Market economies

17) The long-run average cost curve

18) Suppose we observe the price of a product rising and more of the product being bought and sold. This could be a result of

19) A monopoly with a straight, downward-sloping demand curve has a marginal revenue curve that is

20)

For this monopolist, profit is the area represented by

21) If a capitalist society wants more coffee, then the relative price of coffee will

22) A price discriminating monopoly differs from a non-discriminating monopoly because a discriminating monopoly

23) Prices in capitalist economies are

24) In the market for resources in the circular flow diagram, households

25) In an oligopoly market, firms

26) If buyers bid up the price of a good, then

27) Marginal revenue equals marginal cost at the point where

28) Marginal cost always intersects average variable cost at

29) In a command economy

30) Assume a firm hires labor for $15 each and sells its products for $3 each. If the MP of the third worker is 10, which of the following statements would be the most true?

31) The invisible hand

32) Relative to a competitive product market with the same costs, a monopoly can be expected to involve

33) Clearing lakes and waterways of pollution will result in increased efficiency if