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Essentials of Marketing 16th Edition by William Perreault
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Chapter 1: Marketings Value to Consumers, Firms, and Society
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Q1) The marketing concept can be applied by
A)a nurses' association.
B)cosmetics manufacturers.
C)nonprofit hospitals.
D)national parks.
E)All these answers are correct.
Answer: E
Q2) The president of a financial services company says that her new marketing manager has changed things a lot-making long-range plans about where the firm should focus its effort,and coordinating the decisions about what services to offer and how they should be promoted and priced.It seems that this company is just moving into the ________ era.
A)marketing company
B)sales
C)production
D)marketing department
E)simple trade
Answer: A
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Chapter 2: Marketing Strategy Planning
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Q1) Personal selling involves direct personal communication to get the sale,but personal attention is seldom required after the sale.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) Which of the following would be likely to help you develop a breakthrough opportunity?
A)a two-month advantage over competitors in introducing a new product
B)an idea for a new website animation that will attract consumer attention
C)accurate marketing research information about how much of a planned product the target market is likely to buy
D)None of these would help you develop a breakthrough opportunity.
Answer: D
Q3) A marketing strategy specifies
A)a marketing mix.
B)a target market and a related marketing mix.
C)a target market.
D)the resources needed to implement a marketing mix.
Answer: B
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Chapter 3: Evaluating Opportunities in the Changing Market Environment
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Q1) GDP income measures can give the impression that people in less-developed nations have more income than they really do.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) Which of the following is true of the Sherman Act?
A)It was intended to protect large producers.
B)It was passed to prohibit deceptive pricing.
C)It was passed after the Depression of the 1930s.
D)It was passed just after the Antimerger Act of 1950.
E)It was aimed at efforts to restrain trade or lessen competition.
Answer: E
Q3) A country's emphasis on its own interests before everything else is known as A)socialism.
B)democracy.
C)nationalism.
D)capitalism.
E)entrepreneurship.
Answer: C
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Chapter 4: Focusing Marketing Strategy With Segmentation and Positioning
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Q1) The first step in market segmentation should be
A)deciding what new product you could develop.
B)evaluating what segment(s)you currently serve.
C)finding a demographic group likely to use your products.
D)listing features of your current products.
E)defining some broad product-markets where you may be able to operate profitably.
Q2) Which of the following is the best example of a generic market?
A)the meat market
B)the minivan market
C)the e-commerce market
D)the beer market
E)the "singles" entertaining market
Q3) A market is a group of two or more sellers who offer substitute ways of satisfying customer needs.
A)True
B)False
Q4) "Good" market segments should be heterogeneous within and homogeneous between.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Final Consumers and Their Buying Behavior
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Q1) Which of the following statements about ethnic dimensions of the U.S.market is true?
A)Ethnic groups buy differently and have different needs.
B)Many firms make the mistake of treating all consumers in an ethnic group as a single group.
C)The number of ethnic consumers is growing at a faster rate than the overall society.
D)The buying power of ethnic submarkets is increasing rapidly.
E)All these statements are true.
Q2) Compared to the other major ethnic groups in the United States,which of the following would an African American consumer be more likely to buy?
A)a product tied to cultural traditions
B)fragrances
C)electronic goods
D)dried grains
E)a product sold online
Q3) Many needs are culturally (or socially)learned.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 6: Business and Organizational Customers and Their Buying Behavior
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Q1) Which of the following statements about vendor analysis is true?
A)Its goals include increasing the total costs associated with purchases.
B)It is also known as portfolio analysis.
C)Its sole purpose is to get the lowest price from a supplier on a given product or service.
D)It is an informal rating of the retailers and wholesalers in an industry.
E)It helps in selecting suppliers by evaluating them in all relevant areas of performance.
Q2) In marketing,business and organizational customers are distinct from
A)intermediaries.
B)government units.
C)final consumers.
D)manufacturing and service firms.
E)nonprofit organizations.
Q3) Which of the following is an organizational buyer?
A)the Red Cross buying office supplies
B)a sporting goods retailer buying skis
C)a law office buying a background music service
D)a country club buying tennis balls for a tournament
E)All these answers are correct.
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Chapter 7: Improving Decisions With Marketing Information
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Q1) Isaac,a marketing manager,performs Internet searches and customer surveys to develop and analyze new information about a market his company is planning to enter.What procedure is Isaac following in order to get the desired information?
A)marketing research
B)marketing information system
C)frequency monitoring program
D)marketing plan
E)management information system
Q2) Which of the following is a disadvantage of telephone surveys?
A)They are not effective for getting quick answers.
B)Fast data analysis is not possible.
C)Response rates are low.
D)They cannot be used in markets where illiteracy is a problem.
E)They are very expensive.
Q3) A marketing information system should
A)provide a good overall view on many types of problems.
B)store data from inside and outside of the company.
C)provide results in the form of marketing metrics.
D)help make marketing strategy planning process and strategy decisions.
E)All these answers are correct.
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Chapter 8: Elements of Product Planning for Goods and Services
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Q1) For dieters,the highest quality potato chips are probably
A)chips made from all natural ingredients.
B)the chips with the best flavor.
C)Gourmet Cape Cod Kettle Chips.
D)chips that are low in fat and calories.
E)Lay's brand potato chips.
Q2) Personal selling is important for new unsought products,but it tends not to be important for regularly unsought products.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Based on the text,which of the following is a product?
A)space in Playboy Magazine sold to an advertiser
B)a Sony PlayStation III
C)a Broadway musical play
D)the San Diego Zoo
E)All these answers are correct.
Q4) Software applications can offer value-adding services to supplement a core product.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: Product Management and New-Product Development
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Q1) When introducing a really new product,the marketer should be concerned about building channels of distribution but not about promotion.
A)True
B)False
Q2) A good marketing manager knows that
A)a fashion is the currently accepted or popular style.
B)the faster fashions change,the harder marketing strategy planning is.
C)modern technology affects the speed of fashion change.
D)a fad is even more short-lived than a fashion.
E)All these answers are correct.
Q3) During the market introduction stage of the product life cycle,
A)large profits are typical until competition arrives.
B)Price and Promotion are more important than Place and Product.
C)all forms of expenditure on Place and Promotion are put on hold.
D)much money is spent for Product,Place,and Promotion.
E)most customers are looking for the new product.
Q4) Empowerment means giving employees the authority to correct a problem on their own.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: Place and Development of Channel Systems
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Q1) The main reason that vertical marketing systems are becoming more common is that
A)firms realize that working independently has advantages for channel members.
B)firms increasingly understand competition among channel members is profitable.
C)it's easy for multiple firms to coordinate a single marketing mix for a common target market.
D)firms recognize coordination among channel members can increase sales for each channel member.
E)only vertical marketing systems perform activities that adjust the quantities or assortments of products handled at each level in a channel of distribution.
Q2) Which of the following statements about Place decisions is true?
A)Product classes are not related to Place objectives.
B)The product life cycle is not related to Place objectives.
C)Place decisions are short-term decisions that are easy to change.
D)Different market segments may require separate Place arrangements.
E)Place decisions are the same for any market.
Q3) Accumulating involves dividing larger quantities into smaller quantities as products get closer to the final market.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: Distribution Customer Service and Logistics
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Q1) A ________ is the complete set of firms,facilities,and logistics activities that are involved in procuring materials,transforming them into intermediate or finished products,and distributing them to customers.
A)supply chain
B)physical distribution group
C)logistics partnership
D)just-in time group
E)None of these answers is correct.
Q2) What is the likely advantage of transportation of goods by truck?
A)Trucks are best at moving long quantities of goods for long distances.
B)Trucks are a very low-cost mode of transportation.
C)Trucks have valuable benefits like less spoilage,theft,and damage.
D)Trucks can provide fast delivery.
E)Trucks do not compete for high-value items.
Q3) When both regrouping and storing are needed,a firm should add a distribution center.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: Retailers, Wholesalers, and Their Strategy Planning
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Q1) Agent wholesalers usually have higher operating expenses (as a percentage of sales)than merchant wholesalers.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Compared to conventional retailers,which of the following types of retailers offers a wider product assortment but less service?
A)convenience stores
B)supermarkets
C)telephone order retailers
D)department stores
E)limited-line stores
Q3) Automatic vending accounts for 15 percent of total U.S.retail sales.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Manufacturers' agents usually work for
A)manufacturers' sales branches.
B)only one manufacturer.
C)selling agents.
D)several manufacturers of noncompeting lines.
E)service wholesalers.
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Chapter 13: Promotionintroduction to Integrated Marketing Communications
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Q1) Charissa works at a computer software company where it is her responsibility to determine the blend of promotion methods in a strategy decision.Which of the following is most likely her job title?
A)marketing manager
B)sales promotion manager
C)advertising manager
D)public relations manager
E)sales manager
Q2) The best way to reach early adopters is through
A)impersonal and scientific information media.
B)salespeople and mass media.
C)innovators.
D)the mass media.
E)opinion leaders.
Q3) Poor communication is likely if
A)there is no noise in the message channel.
B)the source and the receiver do not have a common frame of reference.
C)the encoder and the decoder are not the same person.
D)immediate feedback is not possible.
E)the source and the receiver don't have personal contact.
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Chapter 14: Personal Selling and Customer Service
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Q1) Betti Hallmark sells women's clothing and gets most of her business from regular customers who have bought from her before.Betti never tries to sell anything before first trying to determine each customer's specific needs.Once she understands the customer's needs,Betti helps the customer understand her own needs and then shows how some product will fill those needs.Betti's sales presentation uses the A)"canned" approach.
B)target market presentation.
C)selling formula approach.
D)consultative selling approach.
E)None of these answers is correct.
Q2) Missionary salespeople usually work for wholesalers and provide special promotion help to producers whose products are widely distributed.
A)True
B)False
Q3) In the United States,about 20 times more people are employed in selling than in advertising.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 15: Advertising and Sales Promotion
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Q1) Which of the following refers to programmatic delivery?
A)the use of artificial intelligence to automate the placement of online advertising
B)the number of people who click on an online advertisement based on a banner or pop-up ad
C)placing advertising on social media sites that are relevant to the product or service being sold
D)the use of sponsored ads on search engines
E)the decision to advertise on all digital formats
Q2) Regarding advertising media selection,which of the following is the best advice?
A)"There is no such thing as a must buy."
B)"Be sure the media match your target market."
C)"Avoid the local media."
D)"Make sure your first media choice reaches the whole target market."
E)"Set very general promotion objectives to stay flexible."
Q3) The United States is one of only a few countries in the world where the government takes an active role in deciding what kinds of advertising are allowable,fair,or appropriate.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 16: Publicity: Promotion Using Earned Media, Owned
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Q1) Which media type is considered the most trusted information source by customers for acting on the information but is difficult for a brand to create,measure,or target?
A)owned media
B)direct media
C)earned media
D)specified media
E)paid media
Q2) The owned media type that focuses on moving a customer along in the purchase process by addressing the customer's needs and minimizing click-away is the A)case study.
B)leading page.
C)blog.
D)landing page.
E)white paper.
Q3) Publicity refers to any unpaid form of nonpersonal presentation of ideas,goods,or services.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 17: Pricing Objectives and Policies
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Q1) A marketing manager who sets prices to achieve a given level of market share is using a profit-oriented pricing objective.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Offering a cumulative quantity discount is done to
A)reduce the seller's shipping costs.
B)eliminate some marketing function.
C)shift some of the storing function to the buyer.
D)encourage the buyer to make additional purchases.
E)All these answers are correct.
Q3) Seasonal discounts tend to smooth out sales during the year and therefore permit year-round operation.
A)True
B)False
Q4) A value pricer tries to offer a target market the same marketing mix as competitors but with a below-the-market price.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 18: Price Setting in the Business World
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Q1) Demand-backward pricing
A)starts with an acceptable final consumer price and works backward to what producers can charge.
B)ignores demand estimates.
C)is only sensible when the channel captain is a large retailer.
D)is an average-cost pricing approach.
E)None of these answers is correct.
Q2) A retailer pays a wholesaler $24.00 for an item and then sells it with a 25 percent markup.The retailer's selling price is
A)$32.00.
B)$56.00.
C)$48.00.
D)$30.00.
E)None of these answers is correct.
Q3) Leader pricing is normally used with products for which consumers do have a specific reference price.
A)True
B)False
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World: Appraisal and Challenges
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Q1) In the U.S.market-directed system,it is up to each ________ to decide how effectively individual firms satisfy the consumer's needs.
A)market research consultant
B)customer
C)manufacturer
D)advertising agency
E)salesperson
Q2) Many Internet sites,such as Autobytel.com and Edmunds.com,have extensive information about the prices of new and used vehicles that anyone can use for free.In light of the availability of this information,what is the responsibility of consumers to use it?
A)Consumers shouldn't use it,because it gives them an unfair advantage over car dealers.
B)Consumers have a responsibility to use the information and be smarter customers.
C)Consumers can use it but should not feel a responsibility to do so.
D)Consumers should not trust any information they receive from any source except the government.
E)None of these answers is correct.
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