Praxis II Social Sciences Content Knowledge Exam Prep - Question List

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51. What will an increase in the money supply typically do?
  1. Increase the interest rate
  2. Decrease the interest rate
  3. Increase aggregate demand
  4. Both B and C
52. How do a particular nation’s citizens benefit from buying goods that have been imported?
  1. Competition by imported goods will cause prices of domestic items to drop
  2. Domestic employment will rise as jobs are created to market and sell imported goods
  3. There will be an increasingly large selection of products available on the market
  4. Learning about goods and the countries where they have been imported from leads to a more highly educated population
53. What is the name for the situation in which prices go up very rapidly-sometimes more than 1,000%-within a single year and money becomes a very poor store of value?
  1. Inflation
  2. Hyperinflation
  3. Deflation
  4. Equilibrium
54. In which 1857 case did the Supreme Court declare that a black man had no rights under a white man’s government?
  1. Dred Scott v. Sanford
  2. Plessy v. Ferguson
  3. Brown v. Topeka Board of Education
  4. Loving v. Virginia
  5. Sweatt v. Painter
55. Why was the Supreme Court case of Marbury v. Madison (1803) so significant?
  1. It established a policy for judicial review.
  2. It abolished slavery.
  3. It gave complete government power to the Republicans.
  4. It established states’ rights.

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