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Q.4 Which of the following system is followed by reserve bank of India for issuing currency?
a) proportionate system
b) simple deposit system
c) minimum deposit system
d) fixed fiduciary issue system
Q.7 As an advisor to the government central bank frames policies to regulate the:
(a) Money market
(b) Capital Market
(c) Financial and Capital market
(d) none of these
Q16. Identify which of the following bank does not interact directly with the general public?
Q17. MrsMeenaAgrawal, an economics teacher, was explaining the concept of ‘minimum percentage of the
total deposits to be kept by any commercial bank with the Central Bank of the country, as per norms and statute
prevailing in the country’.
From the following, choose the correct alternative which specifies towards the concept explained by her?
(a)Cash Reserve Ratio
(b) Repo Rate
(c) Bank Rate
(d) Statutory Liquidity Ratio
Q18. Identify which of the following is not a function of the Reserve Bank of India?
(a) To act as the banker to the Government of India.
(b) To act as the custodian of the gold reserve of India
(c) To act as the financial advisor to the Government of India
(d) To issue coins and one rupee note
Q19. In a hypothetical economy, Mr. Neeraj has deposited ₹100 in the bank. If it is assumed that there is no
other currency circulation in the economy, then the total money supply in the economy will be _________.
(a) Zero
(b) 100
(c) not defined
(d) 120
Q20. Suppose in an economy, the initial deposits of ₹ 400 crores lead to the creation of total deposits worth ₹
4000 crores. Under the given situation the value of reserve requirements would be________.
(a) 0.01
(b) 1
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(c) 0.1
(d) 0.4
Q21. Which measures of money supply of RBI include ‘deposits with post office savings organisations’?
(a) M1 (b) M2 (c) M3 and M4 (d) M2 and M4
Q23.____________is the most commonly used measure of money supply. It is known as aggregate monetary
resources.
(a) M1 (b) M2 and M3 (c) M3 (d) M3 and M4
Q24. Which of the following functions of Central Bank assures individual account holders that their banks will
be able to pay their money back in case of a crisis and there is no need to panic thus avoiding bank runs?
(a) Banker’s Bank
(b) Banker to the Government
(c) Lender of last resort
(d) Custodian of foreign exchange reserves
Q26. In the present COVID-19 times, many economists have raised their concerns that Indian economy may
have to face a deflationary situation, due to reduced economic activities in the country. Suppose you are a
member of the high powered committee constituted by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI).
Q29. Under Statutory Liquidity Ratio, commercial banks are required to keep a fraction of _________ in the
form of liquid assets.
(a) Total deposits
(b) Term deposits
(c) Total demand and term deposits
(d) Current deposits
Q30.If the initial deposit received by a commercial bank is Rs 2000/- and the LRR in the economy is 20%, how
much credit the commercial bank create?
a) 10000 b) 8000 c) 12000 d) 6000
Q36.The fraction of deposits kept as cash Reserves by the commercial bank is called:
a. CRR
b. SLR
c. LRR
d. All of these
Q37.Which of the following is not a necessary condition for credit creation by commercial banks?
a. Availability of gold borrowers
b. high rate LRR .
c. people should have a banking habits
d. People should have faith in banking system
Q40.What will be the money creation if LRR=10% and Primary deposits of commercial banks are Rs.1000 cr.?
Q44.Raising bank rate by the central bank in India during excess demand is :
a. Deflationary
b. Inflationary
c. Stabilisation
d. All of these
Q50.In order to encourage investment in the economy, the Central Bank may ________
(A) Reduce Cash Reserve Ratio
(B) Increase Cash Reserve Ratio
(C) Sell Government securities in the open market
(D) Increase Bank Rate
Q51. Institution that accepts deposits for lending purpose is known as __________
(A) Commercial Bank
(B) Central Bank
(C) Government
(D) Public
Q52. The central bank can increase the availability of credit by:
(A) Rasing repo rate
(B) Raising reverse repo rate
(C) Buying government securities
(D) Selling government securities
Q54. The ratio of total deposits that a commercial bank has to keep with RBI is called:
(A) Statutory liquidity ratio
(B) Deposit ratio
(C) Cash reserve ratio
(D) Legal reserve ratio
Q61. The system in which trade can be done by exchange of goods and services is
(A) Barter system (B) Monetary system
(C) Goods system (D) None of the above
Q62.Money contains:
(A) Coins (B) Currency notes
(C) Cheques (D) All of the above
Q66.The rate at which commercial bank borrow from central bank is called……………………..
(A) Bank Rate (B) Reverse repo rate
(C) Legal Reserve ratio (D) Cash reserve Ratio
Q70.The difference between the amount of loan and market value of security offered by borrower against the
loan is called:
(a) Bank rate (b) Cash reserve ratio
(c) Margin requirement (d) Reverse repo rate
Q72. Who issues Rs. 1 and Rs, 2 denominations currency notes and coins?
A) RBI B) Government
C) Commercial banks D) Ministry of Finance
Q81.Total deposits created by commercial banks is ₹12000 crore and LRR is 25%. Calculate the amount of
initial deposits.
(A) 3000
(B) 4000
(C) 5000
(D) 6000
ANSWERS
1-D 2-C 3-C 4-C 5-C 6-D 7-A 8-D 9-D 10-B
11-A 12-D 13-C 14-D 15-A 16-D 17-A 18-C 19-B 20-B
21-D 22-C 23-C 24-C 25-C 26-B 27-C 28-B 29-C 30-A
31-C 32-D 33-C 34-B 35-C 36-B 37-B 38-A 39-D 40-D
41-C 42-A 43-C 44-A 45-D 46-B 47-B 48-B 49-A 50-A
51-A 52-D 53-A 54-C 55-B 56-D 57-A 58-C 59-D 60-D
61-A 62-D 63-A 64-A 65-D 66-A 67-D 68-B 69-C 70-C
71-B 72-D 73-C 74-C 75-C 76-D 77-D 78-D 79-B 80-B
81-A 82-C 83-B 84-A 85-C 86-B 87-B 88-B 89-A 90-C
Case 1 The power of commercial banks which enables them to expand their deposits through
loans is called credit creation. Legal Reserve Ratio is the minimum reserve that a
commercial bank must maintain in a liquid form as per the instructions of the Central
banks. LRR has two components(i) Cash Reserve Ratio (CRR)-It is the fraction of net
total demand and time deposits that commercial banks must keep as cash reserves with
Central bank. (ii) Statutory liquidity ratio (SLR) – it is the fraction of net total demand
and time deposits that commercial banks must keep themselves in the form of specified
liquid assets.
Assumptions of Credit creation-(i)There is a single banking system in the economy. (ii)
All transactions are outed through the banks
Commercial banks are called the factories of credit. They advance much more than
what they collect from the people in the form of deposits. Through the process of credit
creation, the commercial banks provide finance to all the sectors of economy.
1.Which bank is called the factory of credit creation?
a. Govt. b. Commercial Bank c. LIC d. None of these
2.If CRR=5% and LRR=20% then what is the SLR?
a.5% b.10% c.15% d.None of these
3.Which of the following are the assumptions of credit creation process?
a.There is a single banking system in the economy.
b. All transactions are outed through the banks.
c.Both a and b
d.None of these.
Case 2 The Central Bank of India is an apex body in the banking and financial structure of a
country which was established in 1935.The Central bank enjoys the sole monopoly of
issuing currency. It acts as a banker, agent and advisor to the government. The Central
bank has the same relation with the commercial banks as the later has with the general
public
Case 4 Read the following case study paragraph carefully and answer the questions based on the
same.
The central bank of India (Reserve Bank of India) is the apex institution that controls the
entire financial market. It’s one of the major functions is to maintain the reserve of foreign
exchange. Also, it intervenes in the foreign exchange market to stabilise the excessive
fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate. In other words, it is the central bank’s job to
control a country’s economy through monetary policy.
If the economy is moving slowly or going backward, there are steps that central bank can
take to boost the economy. These steps, whether they are asset purchases or printing more
money, all involve injecting more cash into the economy. The simple supply and demand
economic projection occur and currency will devalue. When the opposite occurs, and the
economy is growing, the central bank will use various methods to keep that growth steady
and in-line with other economic factors such as wages and prices.
Whatever the central bank does or in fact don’t do, will affect the currency of that country.
Sometimes, it is within the central bank’s interest to purposefully affect the value of a
currency. For example, if the economy is heavily reliant on exports and their currency value
becomes too high, importers of that country’s commodities will seek cheaper supply; hence
directly affecting the economy.
1.Which of the following tools are used by the central bank to control the flow of money in
domestic economy?
a) Fiscal tools
b) Quantitative monetary tools
c) Qualitative monetary tools
d) Both (b) and (c)
2.Money supply is a ------------- concept.
a) Flow
b) Stock
This week, Prime Minister NarendraModi extended until May 3 a lockdown of population of
1.3 billion as India’s tally of infections exceeded 10000, despite the 3 week shutdown order
from March 24.
The RBI cut its reverse repo rate by 25 basis points (bps) to 3.75 percent with immediate
effect. GovernerShaktikanta Das told a video conference. The rate had already been cut by
90bps on March 27.
“The surplus liquidity in the banking system has risen significantly in the wake of
government spending and the various liquidity enhancing measures undertaken by the
RBI”.He added. “In order to encourage banks to deploy these surplus funds in investments
1.The Reserve Bank of India lowered reverse repo rate to discourage banks from parking idle
funds with ________ (RBI/Commercial Banks).
2.RBI’s measure of reduction in reverse repo rate is done to enable commercial banks
_________ [1]
(a) To use the surplus funds for investment
(b) To grant loans for productive purposes
(c) To widen economic and financial land space
(d) all of these
3.Reverse repo rate is _______(increased/decreased) to correct excess demand .
Money supply in the economy has increased over the months. We can look at money
supply from component side and sources side. One of the ways of measuring money supply
is M3, which is sum of the currency with the public, the demand deposits with the banking
system, which included current deposits and saving deposits, the time deposits with the
banking system, such as fixed deposits and recurring deposits, and other deposits of RBI.
The currency with the public has grown by more than 21% since June and so have bank
deposits. This led to M3 growing by over 12% since June.
Heightened uncertainty in India caused by the corona virus pandemic has led to a surge in
currency in circulation as people hoard cash or park money in accessible deposits to
Foreign money continuously keeps coming to India, Leading to an increase in demand for
the rupee against the dollar. To prevent rupee from appreciating, RBI sold rupees and bought
dollars adding to the increase in M3.
1.Money supply in the economy has increased over 5 months since June due to:
(a) Public holding cash for transaction and precautionary motive.
(b) Inflow of foreign exchange.
(c) Uncertainty caused by corona virus pandemic
(d) all of these
2.Sum of currency with public, demand deposits and time deposits with the bank is
_________ (M2/M3) Measure of money supply.
3.______ and ________ are the components of money supply.
Case-12 Read the following news report and answer Questions (3) and (4) on the basis of the
same:
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) cut Repo Rate to 4.4%, the lowest in at least 15 years.
Also, it reduced the Cash Reserve Ratio (CRR) maintained by the banks for the first time in
over seven years. CRR for all banks was cut by 100 basis points to release ₹ 1.37 lakh crores
across the banking system. RBI governor Dr. Shaktikanta Das predicted a big global
recession and said India will not be immune. It all depends how India responds to the
situation. Aggregate demand may weaken and ease core inflation. (The Economic Times;
March 27th, 2020)
ANSWERS
Case 1
Q.NO.1 b
Q.NO.2 c
Q.NO.3 c
Case 2
Q.NO.1 b
Q.NO.2 c
Q.NO.3 B
Case 3
Q.NO.1 (a)
Q.NO.2 (b)
Q.NO.3 (b)
Q.NO.4 (a)
Case 4
Q.NO.1 (d)
Q.NO.2 (b)
Q.NO.3 (a)
Q.NO.4 (a)
Q.NO.4 (B) Increasing crude oil prices are making economy potentially unstable
Case-7
Q.NO.1 RBI
Q.NO.3 increased
Q.NO.4 (a) discourages the commercial banks to park their surplus funds with RBI
Case-8
Q.NO.1 (d) all of these
Q.NO.2 M3
Q.NO.3 Currency held by public; net demand deposits held by the commercial bank
Q.NO.4 Stock
Case-9
Q.NO.1 1- B
Q.NO.2 2-C
Q.NO.3 3-D
Q.NO.4 3-D
5-A
Q.NO.5
Case-10
Q.NO.1 A
Q.NO.3 B
Q.NO.4 A
A
Q.NO.5
Case-11
Q.NO.1 (a)
Q.NO.2 (c)
Q.NO.3 (b)
Q.NO.4 (d)
Case-12
Q.NO.1 (a)
Q.NO.2 (a)
17 Money can be withdrawn as and when needed by the depositors in case of term deposits.
A.True
B.False
19 open market operations are meant to increase or decrease the supply of money in the
economy.
A.True
B.False
20 If reserve repo rate is 4 percentage. Then repo rate will be lower than this.
A.True
B.False
21 Money as a medium of exchange solves the problem of lack of double coincidence of want.
A.True
B.False
B.False
ANSWER
1. False
2. True
3. True
4. False
5. True
6 FALSE
7 FALSE
8 TRUE
9 TRUE
10 TRUE
11 True: RBI is responsible for giving the bearer of the currency equal purchasing
power.
12 False: the currency created by the Central bank is called High Powered Money
13 False: Value of money multiplier is inversely related to LRR.
1. 1. Assertion (A): To boost the falling demand in the economy. Reserve bank of India
recently reduced repo rate and bank rate.
Reason (R): Decrease in repo rate and bank rate causes decreases in the rate of interest
which leads to rise demand of credit because of which more money flows into the
economy, purchasing power of people increases. Thus, aggregate demand rises and
deficient demand is corrected.
Alternatives:
(a) Both Assertion (A) and Reason (R) are true and Reason (R) is the correct explanation
of Assertion (A).
(b) Both Assertion (A) and Reason (R) are true and Reason (R) is the not correct
explanation of Assertion (A)
(c) Assertion (A) is true but Reason (R) is false
(d) Assertion (A) is false but Reason (R) is true
2. Assertion (A): Anything will be called money if the law of country proclaims it to be
money. It will be commonly accepted measure of value as it will be endowed with legal
tender power (Limited and unlimited).Thus “money is what the law says it is”
Reason (R): Limited legal tender money can be accepted up to a certain limit. For
example, in India, coins up to Rs1000 only (as per coinage bill, August 2011) can be
accepted legally in payment. All currency notes have unlimited legal tender.
Alternatives:
(a) Both Assertion (A) and Reason (R) are true and Reason (R) is the correct explanation
of Assertion (A).
(b) Both Assertion (A) and Reason (R) are true and Reason (R) is the not correct
explanation of Assertion (A)
(c) Assertion (A) is true but Reason (R) is false
(d) Assertion (A) is false but Reason (R) is true
7. Assertion – Supply of money consists of currency held by the people and net demand
deposits held by the Commercial Banks
Reason – Supply of money is the quantity of money over a period of time.
Alternatives:
(a) Both Assertion (A) and Reason (R) are true and Reason (R) is the correct explanation
of Assertion (A).
(b) Both Assertion (A) and Reason (R) are true and Reason (R) is the not correct
explanation of Assertion (A)
(c) Assertion (A) is true but Reason (R) is false
(d) Assertion (A) is false but Reason (R) is true
10. Assertion – The monetary policy rests with RBI in India which controls credit and money
supply in the economy.
Reason – To combat excess demand in the economy, RBI increases the margin
requirement, one of the important qualitative measures of the monetary policy.
Alternatives:
(a) Both Assertion (A) and Reason (R) are true and Reason (R) is the correct explanation
of Assertion (A).
(b) Both Assertion (A) and Reason (R) are true and Reason (R) is the not correct
explanation of Assertion (A)
(c) Assertion (A) is true but Reason (R) is false
(d) Assertion (A) is false but Reason (R) is true
11. Assertion (A): Economic exchanges without the mediation of money are referred to
as barter exchanges.
Reason (R): Demand Deposits are the part of M1.
(a) Both Assertion (A) and Reason (R) are true and Reason (R) is the correct
explanation of Assertion(A)
(b) Both Assertion (A) and Reason (R) are true and Reason (R) is not the correct
explanation of Assertion(A)
(c) Assertion (A) is true but Reason (R) is false.
(d) Assertion (A) is false but Reason (R) is true.
12. Assertion (A): Total quantity or stock of money available in the economy at
particular point of time is known as money supply.
Reason (R): Demand deposit is not the part of money supply.
(a) Both Assertion (A) and Reason (R) are true and Reason (R) is the correct
explanation of Assertion(R)
(b) Both Assertion (A) and Reason (R) are true and Reason (R) is not the correct
explanation of Assertion(A)
(c) Assertion (A) is true but Reason (R) isfalse.
(d) Assertion (A) is false but Reason (R) istrue.
14. Assertion (A) The lender of last resort is one of the important function of RBI Reason
(R) RBI uses the lender of last resort function to save commercial bank during
emergency.
(a) Both Assertion (A) and Reason (R) are true and Reason (R) is the correct
explanation of Assertion(A)
(b) Both Assertion (A) and Reason (R) are true and Reason (R) is not the correct
explanation of Assertion(A)
(c) Assertion (A) is true but Reason (R) isfalse.
(d) Assertion (A) is false but Reason (R) istrue.
15. Assertion (A): All the commercial bank is a financial institution’ Reason (R): All
financial institutions are banks.
(a) Both Assertion (A) and Reason (R) are true and Reason (R) is the correct
explanation of Assertion(A)
(b) Both Assertion (A) and Reason (R) are true and Reason (R) is not the correct
explanation of Assertion(A)
(c) Assertion (A) is true but Reason (R) isfalse.
(d) Assertion (A) is false but Reason (R) istrue.
16. Assertion (A): Money Multiplier = 1/LRR
Reason (R): Lower the LRR higher the value of Money Multiplier and vice-versa.
(a) Both Assertion (A) and Reason (R) are true and Reason (R) is the correct explanation
of
Assertion (A)
(b) Both Assertion (A) and Reason (R) are true and Reason (R) is not the correct
explanation of
Assertion (A)
(c) Assertion (A) is true but Reason (R) is false.
(d) Assertion (A) is false but Reason (R) is true.
17. Assertion (A): The RBI controls the money supply in the economy in various ways.
Reason (R): The tools used by the Central bank to control money supply can be
quantitative or qualitative
(a) Both Assertion (A) and Reason (R) are true and Reason (R) is the correct explanation
of Assertion (A)
(b) Both Assertion (A) and Reason (R) are true and Reason (R) is not the correct
explanation of Assertion (A)
(c) Assertion (A) is true but Reason (R) is false.
(d) Assertion (A) is false but Reason (R) is true.
20. Assertion (A): Money creation is the main function of Commercial banks.
Reason (R): How many times the total deposit would be of the initial deposit is known as
Money Multiplier.
(a) Both Assertion (A) and Reason (R) are true and Reason (R) is the correct explanation
of Assertion (A)
(b) Both Assertion (A) and Reason (R) are true and Reason (R) is not the correct
explanation of Assertion.
(c)Assertion (A) is true but Reason (R) is false.
(d) Assertion (A) is false but Reason (R) is true.
21. Assertion(A): Commercial Bank contribute to Quantum of money supply in the economy
through credit creation
Reason(R): As they have the note issuing authority.
Assertion (A) and Reason (R). Choose one of the correct alternatives given below:
(a) Assertion and Reason both are correct, statements and Reason is correct explanation
for Assertion.
(b) Assertion and Reason both are correct statements but Reason is not correct explanation
for Assertion.
(c) Assertion is true but Reason is false.
(d) Assertion is false but Reason is true.
22. Assertion (A): LRR represents the minimum reserve ratio essential to be maintained by
banks.
Reason: (R) Bank create deposits in the process of making loans to their customers.
(a) Assertion and Reason both are correct, statements and Reason is correct explanation
for Assertion.
(b) Assertion and Reason both are correct statements but Reason is not correct explanation
for Assertion.
(c) Assertion is true but Reason is false.
(d) Assertion is false but Reason is true.
24. Assertion (A)-Open market operations are used to influence money supply in the
economy.
Reason: (R) Central bank sells government securities to increase the flow of credit in the
economy.
(a) Assertion and Reason both are correct, statements and Reason is correct explanation
for Assertion.
(b) Assertion and Reason both are correct statements but Reason is not correct explanation
for Assertion.
(c) Assertion is true but Reason is false.
(d) Assertion is false but Reason is true.
25. Assertion: The Central Bank is also known as the bank of issue.
Reason: The Central Bank enjoys the sole monopoly of issuing currency to ensure control
over volume of currency and money supply.
(a) Assertion and Reason both are correct, statements and Reason is correct explanation
for Assertion.
(b) Assertion and Reason both are correct statements but Reason is not correct explanation
for Assertion.
(c) Assertion is true but Reason is false.
(d) Assertion is false but Reason is true.
26. Assertion (A)- RBI gives licence to commercial banks and supervise them.
Reason (R)- RBI is the largest bank of country.
(a) both (A) & (R) are true and (R) is correct explanation of (A)
(b) both (A) & (R) both are true and (R) is not correct explanation of (A)
(c) (A) is true but (R) is false
(d) (A) is false but (R) is true
27. Assertion (A)-Money supply is a flow concept.
Reason (R)- Money supply refers to total currency circulation at a point of time.
(a) both (A) & (R) both are true and (R) is correct explanation of (A)
(b) both (A) & (R) both are true and (R) is not correct explanation of (A)
(c) (A) is true but (R) is false
(d) (A) is false but (R) is true
29. Assertion (A)- Credit creation process increases the money supply in economy.
Reason (R)- Through the credit creation process commercial banks can distribute loans
many times as compare to their primary deposits.
(a) Both (A) & (R) both are true and (R) is correct explanation of (A)
(b) Both (A) & (R) both are true and (R) is not correct explanation of (A)
(c) (A) is true but (R) is false
(d) (A) is false but (R) is true
KEY/ANSWER SHEET
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A A C A D B D A A A B
12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22
C A A C A A A D B C B
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