Macro practice quiz
Gwartney, Macroeconomics 18e, chapters 1, 2 and 5–10. Read this two-minute guide, then start.
Questions are exam style: basic definitions mixed with harder scenario, calculation and graph questions. Every one explains why the right answer is right and why each wrong answer is wrong. There is also a 30-question practice exam and interactive AD-AS graph drills. Questions you miss keep coming back until you get them right, and the quiz remembers your weak spots between visits.
Getting started
Open the quiz with the Start the quiz button. There is nothing to install and no account to make.
It works in any up-to-date browser (Chrome, Safari, Edge, Firefox) on a laptop, tablet or phone. Use a normal window, not private or incognito, if you want your progress remembered (see Your saved progress).
The home screen
The home screen is where you choose what to study. It has two panels: Pick chapters and Weak spots.
Pick chapters shows one button per chapter, with its question count in parentheses. All chapters start selected. Tap a chapter to include or exclude it, or use Select all and Clear.
| Ch. | Topic | Questions |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Economic Approach | 25 |
| 2 | Some Tools of the Economist | 25 |
| 5 | Difficult Cases for the Market & Role of Government | 25 |
| 6 | The Economics of Political Action | 25 |
| 7 | Taking the Nation's Economic Pulse (GDP) | 25 |
| 8 | Fluctuations, Unemployment & Inflation | 25 |
| 9 | Basic Macroeconomic Markets | 25 |
| 10 | Dynamic Change & the AD-AS Model | 25 |
The line under the chapters tells you how many questions you've selected. Press Start quiz to begin a round with all of them, in random order. The button is greyed out until at least one chapter is selected.
Taking a round
A round ends only when you've answered every question in it correctly. Each question has four numbered choices, 1 to 4. Some include a graph or table to read.
- Read the question. The tag at the top shows its chapter, and the bar shows how much of the round you've completed.
- Pick an answer: click or tap it, or press 1–4 on your keyboard.
- Read the feedback. The correct answer turns green and a wrong pick is marked. If you missed it, you'll see why the correct answer is right and why each wrong answer is wrong, starting with the one you picked. If you got it right, tap Why the other answers are wrong to check your reasoning. Questions about curve shifts often show the shift here as a graph.
- Press Next question or Enter. After the last question the button says See results.
Missed questions come back. A wrong answer goes to the end of the line and keeps returning until you get it right. The progress bar only moves on correct answers.
Answers are shuffled every time. Question order and answer positions change each round, so memorizing "it was 3" won't help.
Copying is safe. You can highlight and copy question or answer text (Ctrl+C or Cmd+C) without accidentally picking an answer.
Need to stop early? Press End quiz at the top right to see results for the questions you've seen so far.
The results screen
Your score is the percentage you got right on the first try. Retries after a miss don't count, so the score reflects what you actually knew.
Below it is a bar for each chapter in the round (for example, 9/12). Chapters under 75% are highlighted in orange. Those are the ones to reread.
- Back to start returns to the home screen.
- Practice weak spots starts a round with only the questions you've missed.
The score is shown once and isn't saved, so jot it down if you want to track it.
Practice exam
The Practice exam (30 questions) button on the home screen works like the real test: 30 questions drawn from every chapter (3 or 4 each), with no feedback until you submit.
- An elapsed-time clock at the top shows your pace. There's no time limit.
- Use Back, Next, or the numbered boxes to move around and change answers. Answered questions are shaded.
- Press Submit exam when you're done. You'll get a warning if any are blank; blanks count as wrong.
- The results show your score, time, a chapter breakdown, and every question with your answer, the correct answer, and the full explanation. Missed questions are added to your weak spots.
Every exam is a new random draw, so take one as a check-up after studying a few chapters.
Graph drills
Graph drills (AD-AS) practice the diagrams you'll draw on the exam. Each drill describes an event, like an oil price spike or a stock market crash. You move the AD, SRAS and LRAS curves yourself with the arrow buttons (or by dragging a curve), then press Check my graph.
- If something's off, the feedback tells you which curve should move, which way, and why.
- Some drills have a second step for the long run, where you show how the economy gets back to full employment.
- After each drill, a quick question checks what the result means for prices, output or unemployment, and a checklist lists everything to label when you draw it on paper.
The exam has you draw these by hand, so after a drill, try sketching it on paper from memory and compare.
Weak spots
Weak spots is your personal list of missed questions, and it carries over between visits. The home screen shows how many are on it.
- How a question gets on the list: answer it wrong, in any round.
- How it comes off: answer it right on the first try in a later round. Getting it right on a retry in the same round doesn't remove it, because you'd just seen the answer.
- Practice weak spots starts a round with only those questions, from every chapter.
- Save to notes turns your list into a study sheet: each question with its correct answer and explanation, grouped by chapter. Graphs are written out as short descriptions. On a phone or tablet it opens the share menu so you can send it straight to Notes, OneNote or Google Keep. On a computer it downloads a text file.
- Clear weak spots empties the list after asking you to confirm. This can't be undone.
A good routine: do a full round, then run Practice weak spots a day or two later until the list is empty.
Your saved progress
Your weak spots are saved only in your own browser, on your own device. Your answers and scores never leave your device, and no one else, including Aury, who made the quiz, can see them.
The site does count anonymous usage, like how many people visit, how long they spend in the quiz, and how many rounds get finished, using GoatCounter. It uses no cookies and never records your name, answers or scores.
- Separate for everyone. Each person starts with an empty list.
- Tied to one browser on one device. Progress on your laptop won't show up on your phone, or in a different browser on the same laptop.
- Private/incognito windows forget the list when they close.
- Clearing your browser data (cookies and site data) wipes the list.
- Shared computers share a list. Press Clear weak spots before you start on a shared computer.
Study tips and FAQ
- Read the explanation even when you're right. It often covers the reasoning the exam asks about.
- Study one or two chapters at a time while learning them, then select all for review before an exam.
- Each chapter has 25 questions. A full 200-question round is long, so review two or three chapters at a time, then finish with your weak spots.
- "Start quiz" is greyed out.
- No chapters are selected. Tap at least one, or press Select all.
- "Practice weak spots" is greyed out.
- Your list is empty: you haven't missed anything yet, or the list was cleared.
- My weak spots disappeared.
- You're probably on a different device or browser, in a private window, or your browser data was cleared.
- Can I go back to a question?
- Not within a round. Missed questions come back on their own, and you can start a new round any time.
- I think an answer is wrong.
- Email Aury Lomas at alomas5@lsu.edu with the question text and chapter.