Navigation » List of Schools » Glendale Community College » Economics » Econ 102 – Principles of Macroeconomics » Winter 2023 » Week 5 Reading Quiz Chs. 15 and 17
Below are the questions for the exam with the choices of answers:
Question #1
A Lowering taxes and raising government spending
B Increasing government spending and/or decreasing taxes
C By only increasing taxes
D Decreasing government spending and/or increasing taxes
Question #2
A Expansionary fiscal policy
B Contractionary monetary policy
C Expansionary monetary policy
D Contractionary fiscal policy
Question #3
A The rate of inflation is declining.
B The unemployment rate is declining.
C The government is receiving more money in taxes than it spends in a year.
D The government is spending more money than it receives in taxes for a given year.
Question #4
A The President
B State Legislatures
C The President and Congress
D Congress
Question #5
A Government borrowing and spending
B Excessive importation of goods and services
C Private consumption
D Foreign firms dominating the domestic economy
Question #6
A Decreasing in government spending and decreasing taxes
B Increasing investment and increasing government spending
C Decreasing in government spending and increasing in taxes
D Increasing consumption and decreasing taxes
Question #7
A Decrease taxes, decrease government spending, and/or decrease transfer payments
B Increase taxes, decrease transfer payments, and/or decrease government spending.
C Decrease taxes, increase transfer payments, and/or decrease government spending
D Increase taxes, increase spending, and/or increase transfer payments
Question #8
A Automatic stabilizers; current retirees using funds from current contributions
B Legislative lag; deducted from the higher-income groups to pay the lower income groups
C Progressive tax; to current retirees from funds from their past contributions
D Contractionary fiscal policy; current older workers from funds deducted from younger workers
Question #9
A One argument in support of a required balanced federal budget maintains that having a balanced budget each year would make the impacts of economic recessions less severe.
B One argument against a required balanced federal budget is that the government does not have macroeconomic responsibilities
C One argument against a required balanced federal budget is that this mandate cannot be added to the Constitution, and therefore, could not be enforced.
D One argument against a required balanced federal budget is that sometimes it is necessary or beneficial to run large budget deficits in the short-run.
Question #10
A Food Stamps
B Personal Income Tax
C Stimulus Package
D Unemployment Insurance
Question #11
A Both monetary and fiscal policy
B Fiscal but not monetary policy
C Neither monetary or fiscal policy
D Monetary but not fiscal policy
Question #12
A Increase aggregate supply
B Decrease aggregate supply
C Increase aggregate demand
D Decrease aggregate demand
Question #13
A It doubles
B It increases
C There is no change
D It decreases
Question #14
A $400 million
B $400 billion
C $200 billion
D $200 million
Question #15
A The FOMC is smaller in size than the Federal Reserve Board
B There are 12 regional Federal Reserve Banks
C There are 14 members of the Federal Reserve Board
D The head of the Treasury also chairs the Federal Reserve Board
Question #16
A The president
B Member banks
C U. S. Congress
D Board of Governors of the Fed
Question #17
A Sell off government bonds
B Issue more loans
C Raise interest rates
Question #18
A Open market operations
B Reserve requirements
C Federal funds rate
D Discount rate
Question #19
A Higher interest rates and higher GDP
B Lower interest rates and lower GDP.
C Higher interest rates and lower GDP
D Lower interest rates and higher GDP
Question #20
A Increasing the discount rate
B Selling government securities
C Purchasing government securities
D Lending to nonbanks