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Chapter 9
Imperfect Competition and Monopoly
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Imperfect competition prevails in an industry when what condition exists:

A) individual sellers cannot affect price.
B) individual sellers can affect price.
C) price is set by the consumer.
D) price is set by the government.
E) none of the above are correct.
Answer: B
Difficulty: Easy
Topic: Definition
Bloom’s: Knowledge
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
2. A perfect competitor's output in the short run is the quantity that:

A) sets MC equal to MR = P.
B) sets AVC = P.
C) minimizes ATC.
D) sets ATC = P.
E) none of the above are correct.
Answer: A
Difficulty: Easy
Topic: Simple Application
Bloom’s: Comprehension
3. If a firm's demand curve is horizontal, then the firm's marginal revenue is:
A) less than the price of the product.
B) equal to the price of the product.
C) greater than the price of the product.
D) greater than, equal to, or less than the price of the product, depending on the particular
circumstances.
E) not determinable from the above information.
Answer: B
Difficulty: Easy
4. If you are the only mechanic in town which of the following is true about your demand curve?
A) You don’t have one, it is all about supply.
B) it will be a downward sloping curve.
C) it will be a straight line.
D) it will be an upward sloping curve.
E) None of the above.
Answer: B
Difficulty: Medium
Bloom’s: Application
5. In the situation of imperfect competition, the relation between market price P and marginal
revenue MR for each supplying firm is that:
A) P is less than MR at all or most output levels.
B) P is greater than MR at all or most output levels.
C) P is the same as MR at all output levels.
D) P is either less than MR at particular output levels or the same as MR.
E) none of the above, since P is not related to MR.
Answer: B
Difficulty: Medium
6. A monopoly exists when:

A) a single seller has complete control over the industry.
B) a single seller has no control over the industry.
C) many sellers are in control of the industry.
D) no one controls the industry.
E) none of the above.
Answer: A
Difficulty: Easy
Topic: Definition
7. An oligopoly exists when:

A) a few sellers have complete control over the industry.
B) a few sellers have no control over the industry.
C) many sellers are in control of the industry.
D) no one controls the industry.
Answer: A
Difficulty: Easy
Topic: Definition
8. If a monopoly is attempting to maximize profits, which of the following, if any, should it attempt
to do?
A) Maximize revenues.
B) Maximize profit per unit.
C) Select that output at which average total cost is at a minimum.
D) Select that output at which average fixed cost is at a minimum.
Answer: E
Difficulty: Hard
9. Which of the following statements concerning the monopolist with the cost and demand curves
shown in the figure below is true?
P d
ATC
MC = AVC
d
A B C Q
MR
A) At output B, the firm is minimizing losses in the short run; in the long run it should shut
down.
B) At output C, P = MC, and the firm is maximizing profits.
C) At output A, the firm is maximizing profits; however, in the long run the firm should go out
of business.
D) At output B, the firm should shut down in the short run.
E) None of the above are true.
Answer: C
Difficulty: Hard
10. To maximize profits or minimize losses (if the firm produces), a firm must be sure it is producing
at an output where:
A) total revenue is greater than average cost.
B) total revenue is equal to average cost.
C) marginal revenue is greater than marginal cost.
D) marginal revenue is equal to marginal cost.
E) none of the above is correct.
Answer: D
Difficulty: Medium
11. A monopoly finds that, at its present level of output and sales, marginal revenue equals $5 and
marginal cost is $4.10. Which of the following will maximize profits?
A) Leave price and output unchanged.
B) Increase price and leave output unchanged.
C) Increase price and decrease output.
D) Decrease price and increase output.
E) Decrease price and leave output unchanged.
Answer: D
Difficulty: Medium
Topic: Numerical Analysis
AACSB: Analytic
Use the following to answer questions 12-14:
Table 9-1
P Q
$5 8
$4 12
$3 17
$2 22
$1 27
12. Consider the demand curve given in Table 9-1. If the imperfectly competitive firm is able to
produce at any output level, then the price and quantity which maximize total revenue are:
A) P = 5; q = 8
B) P = 4; q = 12.
C) P = 3; q = 17.
D) P = 2; q = 22.
E) P = 1; q = 27.
Answer: C
Difficulty: Medium
AACSB: Analytic
13. Suppose an imperfect competitor faces the demand curve defined in Table 9-1, and its MC is
constant at $2.00. If the firm is able to produce at any output level, then it maximizes profits at:
A) P = 5; q = 8
B) P = 4; q = 12.
C) P = 3; q = 17.
D) P = 2; q = 22.
E) none of the above if fixed costs are less than $1.00.
Answer: B
Difficulty: Medium
AACSB: Analytic
14. If the firm described in the previous question has no fixed costs, its profits are:
A) $48.
B) $54.
C) $24.
D) $4.
E) -$12
Answer: C
Difficulty: Hard
AACSB: Analytic
15. Imperfect competition does not mean “no competition. Many firms have rivals but are still in an
imperfect competition industry. A rival wants to do which of the following:
A) increase profits.
B) increase market share.
C) advertise to shift out their demand curve.
D) all of the above.
Answer: D
Difficulty: Easy
16. Which of the following eliminates the possibility of perfect competition in a market?
A) The industry faces a downward sloping demand curve.
B) Individual firms face downward sloping demand curves.
C) Firms face decreasing returns to scale.
D) Firms display constant returns to scale.
E) The market lacks product differentiation.
Answer: B
Difficulty: Easy
Topic: Definition
17. Two possible reasons for the existence of an imperfectly competitive market are:
A) product differentiation and free trade.
B) constant returns to scale and a lack of market regulation.
C) increasing returns to scale and barriers to free entry.
D) a lack of market segmentation and "U" shaped marginal cost curves.
Answer: C
Difficulty: Medium
18. A natural monopoly is:

A) a market in which the industry’s output can be efficiently produced only by a single firm.
B) a market in which the industry’s output is produced by a single firm.
C) a market where many sellers can produce the output.
D) not a real option.
Answer: A
Difficulty: Easy
Topic: Definition
19. If a firm finds out that its marginal revenue is greater than its marginal cost, it should:
A) increase production and sales.
B) decrease production and sales.
C) encourage the entry of other firms into the market.
D) keep raising its selling price till marginal revenue equals marginal cost.
E) change nothing because profits are maximized.
Answer: A
Difficulty: Easy
20. Perfect competition differs from imperfect competition in that:

A) it does not maximize profits at the point where marginal revenue equals marginal cost.
B) perfect competition's industry demand curve never slopes down.
C) perfect competition lacks any externalities.
D) perfectly competitive firms cannot affect prices.
E) none of the above accurately describe a difference.
Answer: D
Difficulty: Easy
Topic: Definition
21. Which of the following are barriers to entry into a market:

A) legal restrictions.
B) high cost of entry.
C) advertising cost.
D) product differentiation.
E) all of the above.
Answer: E
Difficulty: Easy
Topic: Definition
22. Falling marginal revenue facing an individual firm is incompatible with:

A) growth of the firm.
B) perfect competition.
C) oligopoly.
D) barriers to entry.
Answer: B
Difficulty: Easy
23. MR becomes negative when:

A) the demand price becomes negative.
B) the demand elasticity drops from elastic to inelastic.
C) total revenue becomes negative.
D) the loss on previous units is at its maximum.
E) both b and c.
Answer: B
Difficulty: Medium
24. In perfect competition, how is the market price related to marginal revenue for each supplying
firm?
A) P is the same as MR at all output levels.
B) P is less than MR at all (or most) output levels.
C) P is greater than MR at all (or most) output levels.
D) P is either greater than MR or less than MR at particular output levels, but never the same as
MR.
Answer: A
Difficulty: Easy
25. In the short run, under imperfect competition, a firm that wishes to maximize profits or minimize
losses should produce that output which:
A) equates marginal cost with marginal revenue.
B) equates marginal cost with price.
C) corresponds to the lowest point on the average variable cost curve.
D) corresponds to the lowest point on the average total cost curve.
E) equates average cost with price.
Answer: A
Difficulty: Easy
26. A firm is maximizing its profits when:

A) average costs are at a minimum.
B) total revenue is at a maximum.
C) marginal revenue exceeds marginal cost by the maximum amount.
D) its profit per unit sold is at a maximum.
E) none of the above are necessarily maximum-profit points.
Answer: E
Difficulty: Easy
27. If a firm finds that its marginal revenue exceeds its marginal cost, then the maximum profit rules
require the firm to:
A) increase its output in perfect, but not necessarily in imperfect competition.
B) increase its output in imperfect, but not necessarily in perfect competition.
C) increase its output in both perfect and imperfect competition.
D) decrease its output in both perfect and imperfect competition.
E) do none of the above.
Answer: C
Difficulty: Easy
28. If a monopoly is attempting to maximize profits, which of the following should it attempt to do?
A) Maximize revenues.
B) Maximize profit per unit.
C) Select that output at which average total cost is at a minimum.
D) Set price equal to total cost.
Answer: E
Difficulty: Easy
29. If the price of a monopoly firm is located on the inelastic portion of its demand curve, to
maximize profits it should necessarily:
A) increase output and decrease price.
B) decrease output and increase price.
C) increase output and increase price.
D) not change output or price.
E) do none of the above.
Answer: B
Difficulty: Hard

Table 9-2
P Q
$9 8
$8 12
$7 16
$6 20
$5 22
30. The demand curve facing an imperfect competitor is given in Table 9-2. If the firm is able to
produce at any output level, then the price and quantity which maximize total revenue are:
A) P = 9; q = 8.
B) P = 8; q = 12.
C) P = 7; q = 16.
D) P = 6; q = 20.
E) P = 5; q = 22.
Answer: D
Difficulty: Medium
AACSB: Analytic
31. The demand curve facing an imperfect competitor is given in Table 9-2. MC is constant at $3.50.
If the firm is able to produce at any output level, then it maximizes profits at:
A) P = 9; q = 8.
B) P = 8; q = 12.
C) P = 7; q = 16.
D) P = 6; q = 20.
E) P = 5; q = 22.
Answer: C
Difficulty: Medium
AACSB: Analytic
32. A rational firm will only seek to maximize total revenue if:
A) it faces a totally inelastic demand curve.
B) its marginal cost curve falls and then rises.
C) its average costs are falling.
D) it is a perfect monopoly.
E) its variable costs are zero.
Answer: E
Difficulty: Hard
Figure 9-1
33. Which of the following points in Figure 9-1 can be used to identify a profit maximizing
monopolist's production and the price it charges?
A) Ql, Pl
B) Q2, P2
C) Q3, P3
D) Q2, P4
E) Q2, P3
Answer: B
Difficulty: Easy
Topic: Graphical Analysis
AACSB: Analytic
34. Which of the following points in Figure 9-1 can be used to identify production and price in a
perfectly competitive industry?
A) Q1,P1.
B) Q2,P2.
C) Q3,P3.
D) Q2,P4.
E) Q2,P3.
Answer: C
Difficulty: Easy
AACSB: Analytic
35. The difference in consumer surplus between a monopoly market and a perfectly competitive one
illustrated by Figure 9-1 is represented by area:
A) P5P1A.
B) P2P3CB.
C) P3P4DC.
D) Q1ABQ2.
Answer: B
Difficulty: Medium
AACSB: Analytic
36. Network industries most often generate:

A) perfectly competitive markets.
B) negative externalities.
C) product differentiation.
D) natural monopolies.
Answer: D
Difficulty: Easy
37. Which of the following describe the relationship between price elasticity of demand and marginal
revenue?
A) marginal revenue is positive when demand is elastic.
B) marginal revenue is zero when demand is unit elastic.
C) marginal revenue is negative when demand is inelastic.
E) A and C only.
Answer: D
Difficulty: Easy
38. The marginal cost schedule facing an imperfect competitor is constant at $12. The demand curve
is given in Table 9-3. The profit maximizing output for this firm is:
Table 9-3
P Q
$20 6
$19 7
$18 8
$17 9
$16 10
A) 6 units
B) 7 units
C) 8 units
D) 9 units
E) 10 units
Answer: B
Difficulty: Easy
AACSB: Analytic
39. Which of the following can take on a negative value?

A) Marginal Revenue
B) Total Revenue
C) Quantity demanded.
D) Quantity supplied.
E) All of the above.
Answer: A
Difficulty: Easy
AACSB: Analytic
40. Imperfect competition can result in all of the following except:

A) less quantity than perfect competition.
B) a higher price than perfect competition.
C) more economic efficiency (i.e. less deadweight loss) than under perfect competition.
Answer: C
Difficulty: Easy
Topic: Experience
41. If marginal revenue is 0:

A) total revenue is increasing.
B) total revenue is maximized.
C) the demand curve is unit elastic.
D) B and C only.
E) A and C only.
Answer: D
Difficulty: Medium
AACSB: Analytic
42. Which of the following might be an industry characterized by a model of an unregulated

monopoly?
A) Public utilities.
B) Local telephone carriers.
C) Farming/agriculture.
D) Gasoline distribution (for automobiles).
Answer: E
Difficulty: Easy
Topic: Experience
43. A monopolist and a perfect competitor can both sell 10 units of a good they produce for $5 a
piece. Which of the following is not true?
A) The perfect competitor can sell unit 11 for $5.
B) The perfect competitor's MR curve is a straight line at $5.
C) The monopolist can sell unit 11 for $5.
D) The monopolist has a decreasing marginal revenue curve.
Answer: C
Difficulty: Easy
AACSB: Analytic
44. A natural monopoly features which of the following up to and including quantities that might be
demanded at the lowest prices?
A) A declining average cost curve.
B) An increasing marginal cost curve.
C) A U shaped average cost curve.
D) An increasing average cost curve.
E) Both A and B.
Answer: A
Difficulty: Easy
Topic: Experience
45. The marginal principle means:

A) people will maximize their income or profits or satisfactions by counting only marginal
benefits of a decision.
B) people will maximize their income or profits or satisfactions by counting the total benefits of
a decision.
C) people will maximize their income or profits or satisfactions by counting none of the
benefits of a decision.
D) people will maximize their income or profits or satisfactions by counting the negative aspects
of a decision.
Answer: A
Difficulty: Easy
Topic: Definition
46. Which of the following describe the concept of “loss aversion”?

A) people will resist taking a loss on an item even though it is not costly to hold on to an asset.
B) people will resist taking a loss on an item even though it is costly to hold on to an asset.
C) people will accept taking a loss on an item when it is costly to hold on to an asset.
D) people will accept taking a loss on an item even though it is not costly to hold on to an asset.
Answer: B
Difficulty: Easy
Topic: Definition
47. Which of the following are major sources of imperfect competition?

A) Government tariffs.
B) Patent laws.
C) Copyright laws.
D) Economies of scale.
E) All of the above.
Answer: E
Difficulty: Easy
Topic: Experience
48. At a profit maximizing point:

A) profits are always positive.
B) marginal revenue is 0.
C) marginal cost is 0.
D) total revenue is maximized.
Answer: E
Difficulty: Easy
49. Oligopolists differ from monopolists in that they:

A) equate marginal revenue with average cost.
B) equate marginal cost with a price read from a demand curve.
C) face a competitor selling a similar product.
D) maximize total revenue.
E) all of the above.
Answer: C
Difficulty: Easy
Topic: Experience
50. If a profit-maximizing firm, with an increasing average cost curve, finds that it is producing a
level of output at which marginal costs are $100, while marginal revenue is $5, what action
should it take?
A) Raise output.
B) Lower prices.
C) Declare bankruptcy.
D) Decrease output.
Answer: D
Difficulty: Easy
True/False Questions
51. Oligopoly means exactly two sellers.

Answer: False
Difficulty: Easy
Topic: Definition
52. Steel is an oligopolistic industry in the U.S.

Answer: True
Difficulty: Medium
53. Imperfect competition means that there is only one or two sellers in the market.
Answer: False
Difficulty: Easy
Topic: Definition
54. A perfect competitor is distinguished by having no control over price.

Answer: True
Difficulty: Easy
Topic: Definition
55. The output level that maximizes a firm's profits also maximizes the marginal profit on the last
unit produced.
Answer: False
Difficulty: Medium
56. If marginal revenue becomes negative, this must mean that the firm's total revenue is declining
with additional output.
Answer: True
Difficulty: Easy
Topic: Definition
57. Under conditions of perfect competition, marginal revenue and price are equal for the individual
firm.
Answer: True
Difficulty: Easy
58. Since Microsoft is a monopoly, it can change the price of its operating system.
Answer: True
Difficulty: Easy
Topic: Definition
59. A profit-maximizing imperfect competitor is at equilibrium when marginal revenue is equal to

marginal cost.
Answer: True
Difficulty: Easy
60. Wheat farming in the U.S. can be best described as an oligopoly.

Answer: False
Difficulty: Easy
Topic: Experience
61. Monopolistic competition is categorized as an industry with few sellers and no competition.
Answer: False
Difficulty: Easy
Topic: Definition
62. Personal computers are considered differentiated products.

Answer: True
Difficulty: Easy
Topic: Definition
63. If a firm has zero marginal costs, then its maximum-profit output is where marginal revenue is
zero.
Answer: True
Difficulty: Medium
64. Unlike the curve for a monopolist, the total revenue curve for a single perfect competitor would
be a straight line rising to the right from the origin.
Answer: True
Difficulty: Medium
Topic: Experience
65. The monopolist sets MR = P above MC.

Answer: False
Difficulty: Easy
Topic: Definition
66. Rivalry can exist in an imperfect competition industry

Answer: True
Difficulty: Easy
Topic: Definition
67. Monopolists tend to charge a higher price than the market will bear.
Answer: False
Difficulty: Medium
68. Profits are maximized when the rate of change of total revenue equals the rate of change of total
cost.
Answer: True
Difficulty: Easy
69. A firm should decrease its output if marginal cost is greater than marginal revenue.
Answer: True
Difficulty: Easy
Topic: Definition
70. An individual perfect competitor faces a horizontal demand curve.

Answer: True
Difficulty: Easy
Topic: Definition
71. Intense rivalry between Chrysler, Ford and GM means perfect competition in the U.S. auto
industry.
Answer: False
Difficulty: Easy
Topic: Definition
72. The output level that maximizes a firm's profits also minimizes marginal costs.
Answer: False
Difficulty: Medium
73. The market demand curve and the demand curve facing the firm are the same in all imperfectly
competitive markets.
Answer: False
Difficulty: Hard
74. The automobile industry in the United States can best be described as an oligopoly.
Answer: True
Difficulty: Easy
Topic: Experience
75. The slope of the total profit curve is always equal to marginal revenue minus marginal cost.
Answer: True
Difficulty: Hard
Topic: Definition
76. If all firms in an industry sell identical products, then it would never pay to advertise.
Answer: False
Difficulty: Easy
Topic: Definition
77. Product differentiation is not an example of a barrier to entry.

Answer: False
Difficulty: Easy
78. Regardless of demand, monopoly profits are always positive in the absence of government
regulation.
Answer: False
Difficulty: Medium
79. If marginal cost is constant, then the profit maximizing monopoly output is indeterminant.
Answer: False
Difficulty: Hard
80. Microsoft's Windows product generated monopoly power by exploiting network externalities.
Answer: True
Difficulty: Easy

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Multiple Choice Questions

1. Imperfect competition prevails in an industry when what condition exists:

2. A perfect competitor's output in the short run is the quantity that:

6. A monopoly exists when:

7. An oligopoly exists when:

Use the following to answer questions 12-14:

18. A natural monopoly is:

20. Perfect competition differs from imperfect competition in that:

21. Which of the following are barriers to entry into a market:

22. Falling marginal revenue facing an individual firm is incompatible with:

23. MR becomes negative when:

26. A firm is maximizing its profits when:

Use the following to answer questions 33-34:

Use the following to answer questions 33-35:

36. Network industries most often generate:

39. Which of the following can take on a negative value?

40. Imperfect competition can result in all of the following except:

41. If marginal revenue is 0:

42. Which of the following might be an industry characterized by a model of an unregulated

45. The marginal principle means:

46. Which of the following describe the concept of “loss aversion”?

47. Which of the following are major sources of imperfect competition?

48. At a profit maximizing point:

49. Oligopolists differ from monopolists in that they:

51. Oligopoly means exactly two sellers.

52. Steel is an oligopolistic industry in the U.S.

54. A perfect competitor is distinguished by having no control over price.

59. A profit-maximizing imperfect competitor is at equilibrium when marginal revenue is equal to

60. Wheat farming in the U.S. can be best described as an oligopoly.

62. Personal computers are considered differentiated products.

65. The monopolist sets MR = P above MC.

66. Rivalry can exist in an imperfect competition industry

70. An individual perfect competitor faces a horizontal demand curve.

77. Product differentiation is not an example of a barrier to entry.

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