UNIVERSITY OF CALICUT
SCHOOL OF DISTANCE EDUCATION
BA Economics - MICRO ECONOMICS - I
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(Core Course – 2019 admission onwards (CBCSS))
QUESTION BANK
- Total utility is maximum when - Marginal utility is zero
- Marginal utility is maximum
- Marginal utility increases
- Average utility is maximum
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- Which of the following is called gossans first law - Law of substitution
- Law of equi marginal utility
- Law of diminishing marginal utility
- None of the above
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- When individuals income falls (everything remain the same) his demand for an inferior good - Rises
- Falls
- Remains the same
- We cannot say without additional information
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- If negative income effect is greater than positive substitution effect : the product will be - A normal good
- An inferior good
- A giffen good
- A complementary good
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- Which of the following statement is FALSE with regard to marginal utility - Marginal utility is the utility derived from last unit
- As consumption increases Marginal utility goes on diminishing
- At saturation point marginal utility is Zero
- Marginal utility increases at a diminishing range
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- According to Marshall consumer surplus is: - Total utility – marginal utility
- Total utility + Marginal utility
- Total utility derived – Price
- Price - Marginal utility
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- If both the products X & Y are normal goods - Slopes down towards right
- Slopes up towards right
- Slopes up towards left
- Slopes down towards left
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- Which of the following statement is TRUE with regard to total utility - Total utility is the utility derived from last unit
- Total utility increases at a diminishing range
- As consumption increases total utility goes on diminishing
- At saturation point total utility is negative
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- If negative income effect is less than positive substitution effect : the product will be - A normal good
- An inferior good
- A giffen good
- A complementary good
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- Which of the following statements is true - Hicksian substitution effect is greater than Slutsky substitution effect
- Slutsky substitution effect is greater than Hicksian substitution effect
- Hicksian substitution effect is same and equal to Slutsky substitution effect
- Hicksian substitution effect is the reverse of Slutsky substitution effect
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- According to Hicks substitution effect is - The movement to a higher indifference curve
- The movement to a lower indifference curve
- The movement along an indifference curve
- The movement to a decreased consumption
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- Strong ordering means - Absence of indifference
- Presence of indifference
- No difference between different combinations
- None of the above
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- In the fundamental theorem of consumption and to prove the law of demand, Samualson uses - Compensating variation in income
- The cost difference
- The over compensation effect
- Substituting variation in price
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- If negative income effect is greater than positive substitution effect : price effect will be - Zero
- Negative
- Positive
- Positive and greater than one
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- As per indifference curve analysis consumer equilibrium is attained when - Slope of indifference curve is constant
- Slopes of both indifference curve and income price line are equal
- Slopes of both indifference curve and income price line are opposite
- Both income price line and indifference curve are parallel.
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- The slope of a budget line is - The satisfaction level of both the commodities
- The income level of the consumer
- The price ratio of both the commodities under consideration
- Price level of a country
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- At the point of tangency the slope of indifference curve is - Differ from point to point
- Is equal on the other side of the mid point
- Is the same
- Is increasing
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- The slope of a budget line throughout its length is - The satisfaction level of both the commodities
- The income level of the consumer
- The price ratio of both the commodities under consideration
- Price level of a country
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- The income effect for a commodity is - Is always positive
- Is always negative
- Depends upon price effect
- Determines the nature of the commodity
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- The substitution effect for a commodity is - Is always positive
- Depends upon the nature of the commodity
- Depends upon price effect
- Sometimes negative and sometimes positive
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- Price effect is - Income effect – substitution effect
- Substitution effect – income effect
- Income effect + substitution effect
- Income effect + substitution effect- negative effects
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- For a giffen good, when price falls - Demand increases at a faster rate
- Demand decreases
- Demand remains constant
- Demand curve has a negative slope
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- Inferior goods are the goods with - Falling Income effect
- Rising Income effect
- Negative income effect
- Positive Marshallian effects
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- Indifference curves are - Always parallel
- May be parallel
- May not be parallel
- Both b and c
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- Revealed preference theory assumes - Weak ordering
- Strong ordering
- Constant ordering
- Multiple ordering
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- Hicks Allen indifference theory is based on - Weak ordering
- Strong ordering
- Constant ordering
- Multiple ordering
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- Income consumption curve of an inferior commodity is - Positively sloped
- Backward bending
- Downward slopping straight line
- Showing constant income effect
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- In case of a convex indifference curve - MRS xy is constant
- MRS xy is increasing
- MRS xy is negligible
- MRS xy is diminishing
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- 'Higher the indifference curve higher will be level of satisfaction'. The statement is - Always true
- Always false
- Sometimes true and sometimes false
- True only if price effect is positive
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- As per indifference curve analysis, consumer always try to reach - Higher indifference
- Lower indifference curve
- Middle indifference curve
- Lower income price line
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- Which method is used by Hicks to eliminate the income effect when price of a product is changed - Compensating variation in income
- The cost difference
- The over compensation effect
- Substituting variation in price
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- The basic doctrine of consumers' surplus is based on - Indifference curve analysis
- Revealed preference theory
- Law of substitution
- Law of diminishing marginal utility
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- According to Marshall, The law of diminishing marginal utility - Applies on money in the manner in which it applies on commodity
- Do not applies on money except bank money
- Does not applies on bank money but applies on cash
- Applies on all commodities except money
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- An indifference curve represent - Four commodities
- Less than two commodities
- Only two commodities
- Only one commodity
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- Indifference curve is always - Concave to the origin
- Convex to the origin
- L shaped
- A straight line
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- Engel curve for giffen good is - Positively sloped
- Negatively sloped
- Horizontal straight line
- Vertical straight line
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- Marginal utility is - Always zero
- Increases at a diminishing rate
- The utility derived from last unit
- All the above
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- Total utility is - The sum total of marginal utilities
- Entire utility derived from whole consumption
- Increases at a diminishing rate
- All the above
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- When Total utility is increasing at an decreasing rate, marginal utility is - Constant
- Negative
- Increasing
- Decreasing
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- Other things being equal a decrease in demand can be caused by - A fall in price of the commodity
- A fall in income of the consumer
- A rise in price of the substitute
- None of these
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- When price of a product falls, more of it is purchased because of - The substitution effect
- The income effect
- Neither substitution effect nor income effect
- Both the substitution and income effects
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- "Utility or satisfaction is a subjective concept; therefore it could only be ranked". The statement supports - Cardinal utility theorist
- Ordinal utility theorist
- Behavioral theorist of the firm
- None of the above
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- Ordinal utility analysis is otherwise known as - Gossens second law
- Cardinality approach
- Indifference curve analysis
- Rationality approach
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- Ordinal utility analysis Was developed by - J.R.Hicks & R.J.D. Allen
- Samualson
- Marshall and Jevons
- Slutsky
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- Total utility curve - Always rises
- First falls then rises
- Always falls
- First rises and then falls after reaching its maximum
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- At saturation point MU of a commodity is - Positive
- Negative
- Zero
- Increasing
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- A consumer reaches equilibrium when - Marginal utility is equal to price
- Marginal utility greater than price
- Marginal utility less than price
- Total utility is equal to price
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- Marshalian cardinal utility analysis assumes - Marginal utility of money is zero
- Marginal utility of money is decreasing
- Marginal utility of money is increasing
- Marginal utility of money is constant
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- When individuals income rises (everything remain the same) his demand for a normal good - Rises
- Falls
- Remains the same
- negative
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- When individuals income falls (everything remain the same) his demand for a normal good - Rises
- Falls
- Remains the same
- negative
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- The concept of utility was introduced by - Marshall
- Hicks and allen
- Geremy Bentham
- Gossen
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- Cardinal utility analysis to consumer equilibrium was developed by - Marshall
- Hicks and Allen
- Geremy Bentham
- Gossen
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- MC at any level of output is given by - Slope of TC curve
- Slope of TVC curve
- Slope of either TC or TVC
- Slope of TFC
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- If a firm's average cost is Rs.32 at 6 units of output and Rs.34 at 7 unit, which one among the following is the marginal cost of producing the 7th unit - 46
- 2
- 36
- 42
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- The cost that cannot be recovered once spent - Accounting cost
- Fixed cost
- Implicit cost
- Sunk cost
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- The saucer-type of modern short run Average Variable Cost (SAVC) represents - Excess capacity
- Managerial costs
- Load factors
- Reserve capacity
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- The Long run Average Cost curve (LAC) in modern cost theory is roughly - U shaped
- Saucer shaped
- L shaped
- Rectangular hyperbola
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- Under increasing returns to scale, which of the following is the nature of the long run average cost curve? - Downward sloping
- Upward rising
- Parallel to output axis
- Identical to short run average cost curve
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- Which of the following has a U shape? - Average fixed cost curve
- Total cost curve
- Average variable cost curve
- Total variable cost curve
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- AFC curve will always be - Rectangular hyperbola
- U shaped
- Horizontal
- Downward sloping
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- Implicit cost of a factor of production is determined by its - Sunk cost
- Variable cost
- Fixed cost
- Opportunity cost
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- Economic cost include both - Explicit cost and implicit cost
- Fixed cost and variable cost
- Explicit cost and prime cost
- Money cost and sunk cost
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- The U shape of MC curve reflects - Economies of scale
- Law of increasing returns
- Reserve capacity
- Law of variable proportion
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- Envelope curve is - Long run marginal cost curve
- Long run average cost curve
- Total cost curve
- None of the above
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- In long run, which factor of production is fixed? - Labour
- Capital
- Building
- None of the above
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- The U shape of the average total cost curve reflects - LDMU
- The Law of Variable Proportions
- Consumer's Surplus
- Reserve capacity
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- The total fixed cost is a - Horizontal straight line
- Vertical
- Hyperbola
- U shaped
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- When AC minimum in short run - AC < MC
- AC > MC
- AC = MC
- Any of above is possible
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- The shape of TVC and TC are - Rectangular hyperbola
- Inverse 'S' shape
- Horizontal straight line
- L shaped
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- The cost expressed not in terms of money but in terms of efforts of workers undergone for making the commodity - Opportunity cost
- Real cost
- Sacrifice cost
- Implicit cost
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- The MC curve cuts the AC curve at - The maximum point
- The initial Point
- The minimum Point
- Any point
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- The minimum point of ATC is at .........................position of the minimum point of AVC - Right
- Left
- Same
- All of above can be
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- If the long run cost curve shifts down wards it is an indication of - Technological progress
- Lower factor prices
- Both of these
- Reserve capacity
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- The U shape of the LAC reflects - Law of Variable proportions
- Laws of returns to scale
- Reserve capacity
- None of these
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- The responsiveness of quantity demanded of one commodity to the changes in the price of another commodity is called - Price Elasticity
- Income Elasticity
- Cross Elasticity
- Point Elasticity
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- The value of price elasticity of demand ranges from - One to zero
- Zero to infinity
- One to infinity
- All the above
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- A production possibility curve is concave to the point of origin because of - Increasing marginal rate of transformation (MRT)
- Increasing marginal opportunity cost (MOC)
- Both of the above
- Decreasing marginal rate of transformation
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- The deductive method is also called - Abstract
- Analytical
- priori method
- All the above
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- An Essay on the Nature and Significance of Economic Science was written by - Adamsmith
- Alfred marshall
- Lord Robbins
- Samuelson
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- The word 'Micro Economics and Macro Economics' were first coined by - Adamsmith
- Ragnar Frisch
- Alfred marshall
- Lord Robbins
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Answer Key
| 1. A | 11. C | 21. C | 31. A | 41. D | 51. C | 61. A | 71. B | 
| 2. C | 12. A | 22. B | 32. D | 42. B | 52. A | 62. A | 72. B | 
| 3. A | 13. C | 23. C | 33. D | 43. C | 53. C | 63. D | 73. C | 
| 4. C | 14. B | 24. D | 34. C | 44. A | 54. A | 64. D | 74. A | 
| 5. D | 15. B | 25. B | 35. B | 45. D | 55. B | 65. B | 75. C | 
| 6. C | 16. C | 26. A | 36. B | 46. C | 56. B | 66. A | 76. B | 
| 7. B | 17. C | 27. B | 37. C | 47. A | 57. D | 67. A | 77. C | 
| 8. B | 18. C | 28. D | 38. D | 48. D | 58. D | 68. B | 78. D | 
| 9. B | 19. D | 29. A | 39. D | 49. A | 59. C | 69. A | 79. C | 
| 10. B | 20. A | 30. A | 40. B | 50. B | 60. D | 70. C | 80. B | 
Prepared by
- Ajesh Babu K. P. (Assistant Professor, SDE, University of Calicut)
- Dr. Shiji O. (Assistant Professor, SDE, University of Calicut)
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