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Abby C's Stock Market Quiz

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Hi, guys! Here's the quiz for sections/articles 1 through 7!

1

What is net profit?

All the money you make, plus your expenses
Total income, minus expenses
Only the money you earn

2

What is the definition of asset value/book value?

How much money a company brings in each year (its profit)
The value of a company compared to the assets of similar companies
The total value of a company's assets if they were sold at their book value

3

What is a share/stock?

A piece of all the companies of a certain type
A lovely piece of pie
It represents a unit of ownership in a company

4

Dividend is:

A share's portion of a company's profits
The money that a bank loans to a company
The money a company invests in the stock market

5

The definition of capitalization is:

The process in which a state-controlled economy changes to a capital economy
The product of the number of outstanding shares multiplied by the share price
The time it takes for a company to become a part of the capital economy

6

What exactly is a stock market?

A place where people decide to share the profit they earn from a company
A place where publicly traded companies' shares are bought and sold
The place where companies meet to discuss how they believe their stocks are doing

7

What does a stock broker do?

Any person who likes to buy and sell stocks
Buys and sells stocks on behalf of clients
Sells stocks in their own company

8

What is incorporating?

Selling corporations owned by a company
The legal process of forming a corporation
A company being nice and listening to what everyone has to say

9

What is a sole proprietorship?

When one person owns the majority of shares, but others own the rest
When only one person owns the entire company
When two people own the company equally, but only one makes the decisions

10

What is a partnership?

When one person alone owns the company, but they employ a board of directors
When two or more people share ownership and decision-making
When a company is owned by the government, but has decisions made by a non-government civilian

11

A corporation is known as what kind of person?

A large, powerful person
An extremely wealthy person
A legal person

12

What is a privately held company?

A highly secretive company
A company that only certain people are allowed to buy products from
A company where shares are not publicly traded

13

The definition of investment capital is:

Money from investors
Money made from the company, and then re-invested
A special, secret kind of money

14

What is an IPO?

An initial public opening, when a company first allows the public to buy its products
An investment public option, when the public is informed who has invested in a company
An initial public offering, when a corporation first sells stock to the public

15

What is liability, and what do corporations do to it?

Liability is a product that a corporation produces
It is a company's legal obligation/responsibility. Corporations limit investors' liability
It is private information released by the corporation to the public

16

What is an income stock?

A stock whose income must be re-invested in the same stock
A stock from a company that gives the majority of its profits back to the shareholders
A stock that can only ever increase in value

17

What is a growth stock?

A stock from a company that reinvests its profits to fuel growth
A stock that makes you grow big
A stock that increases your monthly income by giving you a dividend

18

What is a price/earnings ratio, and what is it used for?

The ratio of the price of your employer divided by how much money you make annually - used to determine personal value
The price of a company's stock divided by its earnings per share - used to determine a stock's value
The ratio of the price of the company versus how much the company makes overall - used to determine value

19

What is a bull market?

A market that has a bull inside of it?
Stock prices are rising
Stock prices are decreasing rapidly

20

What is a bear market?

When the economy is not doing overly well or overly poorly, and the prices of stocks tend to be stagnant
The economy is strong, and prices are rising
Stock prices are falling

21

What is the Dow Jones Industrial Average?

An index of 30 large publicly traded companies in the United States
An average of the top 5 industrial companies
An average of all the industrial companies in the stock market at the time

22

What is the name of one of the main stock markets in the US?

DCSE
NYSE
NASDIQ

23

What is an over-the-counter stock?

A stock from a pharmaceutical company
A stock not listed on a formal stock exchange
A stock you can purchase in a normal convenience store

24

What is the name of the group who oversees the collection and distribution of information for publicly held corporations in the United States?

The State Department for Economic Education
The Securities and Exchange Commission
The Corporate Enlightenment Division

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jeyc (62363)

2330 days ago

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