Top 350+ Solved Micro economics 2 MCQ Questions Answer

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Q. Which of the following is a characteristic of monopolistic competition?

a. Few sellers

b. A differentiated product

c. Easy entry into and exit from the industry

d. All of the above

  • a. Few sellers

Q. The demand faced by a monopolistically competitive firm is

a. perfectly elastic

b. elastic

c. unit elastic

d. inelastic

  • b. elastic

Q. If an imperfectly competitive firm is producing a level of output where marginal cost is equal to marginal revenue, marginal revenue is below average variable cost, and price isequal to average total cost, then the firm

a. should shut down

b. should decrease output, but should not shut down

c. should increase output

d. None of the above is correct

  • d. None of the above is correct

Q. Product variation refers to

a. an activity undertaken by a firm to increase demand

b. a problem with quality control that tends to decrease demand

c. an activity undertaken by a firm to make demand more price inelastic

d. None of the above

  • a. an activity undertaken by a firm to increase demand

Q. Which of the following is a criticism of the theory of monopolistic competition?

a. It is difficult to define a monopolistically competitive market and to determine the firms and products that comprise it

b. When product differentiation is slight, each firm\s demand curve is nearly horizontal so the perfectly competitive solution provides an adequate approximation to the monopolistically competitive solution

c. When there are strong brand preferences and few producers of many differentiated products, or when there are many producers but only a few compete as rivals for any given consumer, then the oligopoly solution provides an adequate approximation to the monopolistically competitive solution

d. All of the above are correct

  • d. All of the above are correct

Q. Which of the following industries is most likely to be monopolistically competitive?

a. The automobile industry

b. The steel industry

c. The car repair industry

d. The electrical generating industry

  • c. The car repair industry

Q. Marginal revenue is equal to price for which one of the following types of marketstructure?

a. Monopoly

b. Perfect competition

c. Monopolistic competition

d. Oligopoly

  • b. Perfect competition

Q. Monopoly market is :

a. Single seller market

b. single buyer market

c. single buyer and seller

d. None

  • a. Single seller market
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