12 Economics - Circular Flow of Income (FREE MCQ Test)

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12 Economics – Circular Flow of Income (FREE MCQ Test)

Real Flow specifically deals with the exchange of factors and products, not money.

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What constitutes the Real Flow (also known as Physical Flow) in the circular flow of income between households and firms?

The flow of factor services from households to firms and the corresponding flow of goods and services from firms to households.

The flow of factor payments (rent, wages, interest, and profit) from firms to households.

The flow of money supply (money in circulation).

The combined flow of factor payments and consumption expenditure.

This flow specifically involves monetary transactions and payments.

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How is the Money Flow (or Nominal Flow) characterised in the circular flow of income between households and firms?

The flow of factor services and goods and services.

The flow of factor payments and consumption expenditure.

The movement of factors of production (Land, Labour, Capital, Enterprise).

The total amount of saving and investment.

Think about how income is created, distributed, and eventually spent.

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Which of the following correctly lists the three distinct phases of the Circular Flow of Income?

Production, Consumption, and Saving.

Investment, Saving, and Expenditure.

Wealth, Capital, and Income.

Generation, Distribution, and Disposition.

A Simple Economy is the most basic model, excluding government and foreign trade.

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Which assumption is fundamental to the analysis of the Circular Flow in a Simple Economy (Two-Sector Model)?

Only two sectors (Households and Firms) exist, and there are no savings.

Investment is always greater than savings.

The economy is open to foreign trade, but excludes the government.

There is a government sector that collects taxes but does not spend money.

Distribution relates to how the generated income is allocated.

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What is the focus of the Distribution Phase in the circular flow of income?

Flow of factor income (rent, wages, interest, and profit) from firms to households.

Firms producing goods and services with the help of factor services.

The income received by factors being spent on goods and services.

The saving and investment process.

It is fundamentally a cycle involving production, distribution, and spending.

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Which statement accurately describes the core mechanism of the Circular Flow of Income?

The continuous creation of wealth through capital accumulation.

Cycle of generation, distribution, and circulation (as consumption expenditure) of income.

The fixed amount of money supply within an economy.

The continuous exchange of physical goods only.

This flow involves nominal, or monetary, exchange.

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What is the alternative name for the Money Flow in the circular flow diagram?

Physical Flow.

Real Flow.

Nominal Flow.

Barter Flow.

This flow deals with physical factors and goods/services.

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What is the alternative name for the Real Flow in the circular flow diagram?

Physical Flow.

Nominal Flow.

Monetary Flow.

Expenditure Flow.

Households are the owners of factors and consumers of products.

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What is the primary role of the Household sector assumed in the Circular Flow in a Simple Economy?

Owners of factors of production and consumers of goods and services.

Only suppliers of factor services, not consumers.

Producers of goods and services.

Financial intermediaries that provide loans.

The inner loop involves monetary transactions.

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What does the Inner Loop of the Circular Flow diagram in a Two-Sector economy specifically show?

The Real Flow of goods and services.

The Money Flow of factor payments and consumption expenditure.

The Government's taxing and spending activities.

The flow of investment and savings.

The outer loop involves physical or real transactions.

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What does the Outer Loop of the Circular Flow diagram in a Two-Sector economy specifically show?

The flow of factor payments and factor income.

The monetary transactions between sectors.

The Real Flow of factor services and goods and services.

The flow of capital accumulation.

All production must equal all consumption in this model.

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Which equality is listed as a conclusion of the Circular Flow in a Simple Economy?

Total Production = Total Consumption.

Total Savings = Total Investment plus Taxes.

Total Exports = Total Imports.

Total Government Spending = Total Tax Revenue.

Consider how the physical exchange of factors and products relates to economic growth.

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What specifically does the Real Flow determine in an economy?

The level of inflation.

The amount of tax collected by the government.

The total money supply.

The magnitude of growth in an economy.

Real Flow does not involve money.

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What is exchanged in the Real Flow between the two sectors?

Exchange of money.

Exchange of goods and services and factor services.

Exchange of capital only.

Exchange of profit and interest only.

This relates to the exchange of physical factors/goods versus money.

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Which difficulty is associated with the barter system that is avoided in the case of Money Flow?

Difficulty in recording transactions.

Difficulty in calculating profit.

Difficulty of barter system in exchange of goods and factor services.

Difficulty in defining factors of production.

A simple economy is the simplest form of a closed economy.

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What characterises a Closed Economy, according to the source material?

An economy with extensive foreign trade relations.

An economy which has no economic relations with the rest of the world.

An economy with only two sectors, but includes government.

An economy where all factors are immobile.

This definition is provided in contrast to a closed economy.

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How is an Open Economy defined?

An economy which has economic relations with the rest of the world.

An economy that relies entirely on exports.

An economy that excludes the household sector.

An economy where factor services cannot cross borders.

If there are no savings, all income must be spent.

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In a Simple Economy, what key relationship exists regarding consumption expenditure and factor income, assuming no savings?

Consumption Expenditure is less than Factor Income.

Factor Income is saved entirely.

Factor Income is greater than Consumption Expenditure.

Consumption Expenditure = Factor Income.

Flow variables include those measured over a period, like yearly income.

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Which of the following is cited as an example of a Flow variable?

Money supply (money in circulation).

Total number of Maruti cars in Delhi.

Population of India as on 31.03.19.

National Income.

Stock variables are measured at a specific date, not over a duration.

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Which of the following is cited as an example of a Stock variable?

National Income.

Birth rate during the year 2018.

National Wealth.

Expenditure or transactions in money.

Stock variables represent a fixed status at a given moment.

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What is the fundamental nature of a Stock variable?

It is a static concept.

It is a dynamic concept.

It represents movement and change.

It is time-dimensional.

Flow variables are measured over a period of time.

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A Flow variable is characterised by having what specific dimension?

A static dimension.

A time dimension.

A point-of-time dimension.

No dimension.

There are four main classic factors listed in the introduction.

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In the context of production, which items are collectively combined together as factors of production supplied by the household sector?

Money, Inventory, and Debt.

Goods, Services, and Consumption.

Imports, Exports, and Foreign Aid.

Land, Labour, Capital, and Enterprise.

Stock is a static concept, whereas flow is time-dimensional.

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According to the definition provided in macroeconomics, how is a ‘Stock’ variable measured?

Measured continuously over a year.

Measured dynamically over a specified period of time.

Measured at a particular point of time.

Measured relative to other macroeconomic variables.

These payments are collectively known as factor incomes.

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Which payments do firms make to households for the factor services they provide?

Taxes, Subsidies, and Grants.

Import duties, Consumption tax, and Excises.

Rent, wages, interest, and profit.

Transfer payments and Donations.

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