Introduction to Marketing Review Questions
Course Introduction
Introduction to Marketing provides students with a comprehensive overview of the core principles and practices of modern marketing. The course explores key topics such as market research, consumer behavior, segmentation, targeting and positioning, branding, product development, pricing strategies, distribution channels, and integrated marketing communications. Emphasizing the role of marketing in both business and society, students will learn how organizations identify customer needs, create value, and communicate effectively to build lasting customer relationships. Real-world examples, case studies, and hands-on projects help develop practical skills and a strategic mindset applicable to diverse industries.
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Foundations of Marketing 5th Edition by William M. Pride
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Chapter 1: Customer-Driven Strategic Marketing
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Q1) Which of the following statements describes the best use of the Internet by a marketer?
A)Gain information.
B)Relay product information.
C)Facilitate the marketing process.
D)Accumulate as many friends as possible.
E)Facilitate the marketing exchange, obtain customer feedback, and providing product information.
Answer: A
Q2) A systematic process of assessing opportunities and resources, determining marketing objectives, and developing a marketing strategy and plans for implementation and control describes which of the following marketing management activities?
A)Strategic planning
B)Marketing control
C)Implementation
D)Organizing
E)Planning
Answer: E
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Chapter 2: Planning Marketing Strategies
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Q1) Identifying and analyzing a target market and developing a marketing mix to satisfy individuals in that market are essential elements of which of the following parts of strategic planning?
A)Establishing marketing objectives
B)Coordinating marketing activities
C)Organizing marketing functions
D)Developing a marketing strategy
E)Planning marketing activities
Answer: D
Q2) Product organization is appropriate for a firm that produces and markets a diverse set of products.
A)True
B)False Answer: True
Q3) How does a firm use a market opportunity to reach a particular target market?
Answer: Answer not provided.
Q4) Performance standards are established as part of the marketing control process.
A)True
B)False Answer: True
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Chapter 3: The Marketing Environment, Social Responsibility, and Ethics
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Q1) Sometimes business must find a balance between society's demand for social responsibility and investors' desires for profits. This is an example of a(n) ____ responsibility.
A)ethical
B)legal
C)cost
D)philanthropic
E)economic
Answer: E
Q2) According to the textbook, a manager's duties in an environmental analysis include
A)checking information for accuracy, resolving inconsistencies, and assigning significance to the findings.
B)observation and assessment.
C)conducting research, assessment, and reporting.
D)observation, market research, and fact finding.
E)checking the company database, conducting research, and reporting.
Answer: A
Q3) Define and describe the importance of social responsibility in marketing.
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Chapter 4: Marketing Research and Information Systems
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Q1) In probability sampling, there is no way to calculate the likelihood that a specific element of the population being studied will be chosen.
A)True
B)False
Q2) If Little Caesars wants to determine the impact of different coupon offers on pizza unit sales, it needs to conduct
A)exploratory research.
B)hypothesis development.
C)survey research.
D)stratified sampling.
E)experimental research.
Q3) When marketing researchers consider sampling techniques, they are preparing to collect ____ data.
A)census
B)statistical
C)internal secondary
D)external secondary
E)primary
Q4) How does marketing research differ when conducted in other countries?
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Chapter 5: Target Market Segmentation and Evaluation
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Q1) The process of dividing a total market into market groups because people within each group have relatively similar product needs is called A)segmentation.
B)diversification.
C)target marketing.
D)concentration.
E)customization.
Q2) Why is it important for marketers to assess competitors before entering a market segment?
Q3) It is likely that during the fifth step of the target market selection process, marketers will decide not to enter and compete in any market segments.
A)True
B)False
Q4) One limitation of the sales force survey technique is that salespeople often believe that their sales goals are determined by their sales estimates.
A)True
B)False
Q5) What are the major steps of the target market selection process?
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Chapter 6: Consumer Buying Behavior
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Q1) Marketers often provide consumers with experience to their products, including free samples and trial offers, to facilitate consumer
A)patronage motives.
B)attitudes.
C)perception.
D)distortion.
E)learning.
Q2) Discuss how reference groups and opinion leaders influence purchase behavior.
Q3) Problem recognition speed can vary from quite rapid to very slow.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Marissa goes to Target to purchase school supplies for her two children. As she is approaching the check-out counter, she sees a vase she just has to have and buys it immediately. Marissa's purchase of the vase is an example of
A)limited problem solving.
B)impulse buying.
C)routinized response behavior.
D)addictive consumption.
E)situational involvement.
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Chapter 7: Business Markets and Buying Behavior
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Q1) Interpersonal dynamics are easy to observe and simple for the marketer to assess.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Compared with consumer goods, marketers aiming at business customers
A)do not need to select target markets.
B)have an enormous amount of information available concerning potential customers.
C)have more difficulty in determining where their customers are located.
D)are restricted in the types of promotion they can use.
E)have more difficulty in estimating customers' purchase potentials.
Q3) Individuals and business organizations that purchase products for the purpose of making a profit either by using the products to produce other products or by using them in their operations are classified as ____ markets.
A)consumer
B)institutional
C)producer
D)government
E)reseller
Q4) What factors affect the purchase method that business customers choose?
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Chapter 8: Reaching Global Markets
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Q1) When a firm's products sell in foreign countries with little or no effort to obtain foreign sales, the firm is engaging in
A)international marketing.
B)global marketing.
C)limited exporting.
D)product licensing.
E)unplanned exporting.
Q2) The study of the cultural environment is unnecessary in the foreign market because foreign consumers will accept anything that American marketers have to sell.
A)True
B)False
Q3) One of the effects of NAFTA is the simplification of country-of-origin rules. This will likely hinder the international trade activities of A)Canada.
B)Japan.
C)Brazil.
D)Cuba.
E)Panama.
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Chapter 9: E-Marketing, Digital Media, and Social Networking
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Q1) The first modern social network was shut down due to A)government restrictions.
B)lack of interest.
C)concerns brought up by the Better Business Bureau.
D)inconsistency between state and federal regulations.
E)it was too costly.
Q2) ____ includes any attempt to intentionally conduct dishonest activities online.
A)Racketeering
B)Online spam
C)Digital identity theft
D)Online fraud
E)Online bribery
Q3) The majority of online shoppers read ratings and reviews to aid in their purchasing decisions.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Attempts to deceive consumers into releasing personal information online is referred to as online fraud.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: Product, Branding, and Packaging Concepts
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Q1) Energizer batteries would be classified as which type of product?
A)Convenience
B)Shopping
C)Specialty
D)Unsought
E)Industrial service
Q2) Procter & Gamble has a wider product mix than does Baskin Robbins.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Family packaging cannot be used for individual product lines; it must apply to the entire product mix of the firm.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Communicating product benefits to consumers is very important in the introduction stage.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Describe and illustrate the four major categories of consumer products.
Q6) What is a product?
Q7) Distinguish between consumer products and business products.
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Chapter 11: Developing and Managing Goods and Services
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Q1) The necessary interaction between service provider and customer that allows a service to be delivered is called
A)customer contact.
B)service exchange.
C)marketing.
D)relationship marketing.
E)service contact.
Q2) The concept of product quality is the same from consumer to consumer and from consumer markets to organizational markets.
A)True
B)False
Q3) All of the following are elements of the inseparability characteristic of services except that
A)consumers are involved in production.
B)centralized mass production is difficult.
C)consumption and production are simultaneous.
D)many services cannot be performed without the customer being present.
E)services are easy to standardize and control.
Q4) List and discuss the major phases of the new-product development process.
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Chapter 12: Pricing Concepts
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Q1) A product under nonprice competition would most likely not succeed in the market if
A)a new advertising campaign is established for it.
B)it is easy to duplicate.
C)it is packaged differently from similar products.
D)it is priced near the competitors' price.
E)its quality has been upgraded.
Q2) Price elasticity of demand measures the sensitivity of demand to changes in price.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which of the following is most likely to have an inelastic demand curve?
A)Automobile
B)Vacation
C)Nonelective surgery
D)Recreational vehicle
E)Computer
Q4) Elastic demand is usually a result of the lack of substitute products.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 13: Pricing Management
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Q1) Maintaining or increasing market share
A)can be achieved even if industry sales are flat or decreasing.
B)is an infrequently used pricing objective in most industries.
C)depends upon the overall growth of the total industry.
D)is a profit-related objective based on price.
E)is directly tied to leading an industry in product quality.
Q2) Grocery stores that position their less expensive, private brands next to more expensive, well-known manufacturer brands on the shelf are using the concept of reference pricing.
A)True
B)False
Q3) When establishing prices, a marketer's first step is to
A)determine demand.
B)develop pricing objectives.
C)select a pricing policy.
D)evaluate competitors' prices.
E)determine a pricing method.
Q4) What are some of the objectives a firm might hope to achieve when setting prices?
Q5) Explain the difference between cost-plus and markup pricing.
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Chapter 14: A:marketing Channels and Supply-Chain Management
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Q1) Caruthers Paint Manufacturing Company buys the chemicals it needs for producing its products from a chemical producer, Roth Chemicals. In this instance, the chemicals are being distributed to Caruthers through which of the following types of channels?
A)Industrial distributor
B)Direct distribution
C)Retail
D)Wholesaler-sponsored
E)Producer
Q2) What two modes of transportation are used when containers are shipped by piggyback?
A)Railroads and airways
B)Trucks and airways
C)Pipelines and trucks
D)Waterways and railroads
E)Railroads and trucks
Q3) Identify and describe the criteria used for selecting transportation modes.
Q4) Discuss the importance of order processing in the physical distribution system.
Q5) How do marketing channel decisions influence the rest of the marketing mix?
Q6) Compare and contrast horizontal and vertical channel integration.
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Chapter 14: B:marketing Channels and Supply-Chain Management
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Q1) Supply chain management includes only producers, wholesalers, retailers, and customers.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Retailers are frequently found in business product channels.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Inventory decisions seldom have a strong impact on physical distribution costs and on the level of customer service provided.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Refusal-to-deal arrangements involve a manufacturer that forbids an intermediary to carry products of competing manufacturers.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Some marketing channels are organized and controlled by a single leader.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 15: A:retailing, Direct Marketing, and Wholesaling
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Q1) Compare the services wholesalers provide for producers with the services they provide to retailers.
Q2) Which of the following is not an advantage of franchising for the franchisee?
A)The franchisee can capitalize on the business experience of others.
B)When problems arise, the franchisee can obtain guidance and advice from the franchiser.
C)Franchised outlets are usually more successful than independently owned businesses with respect to long-term survival.
D)The franchisee can participate in national promotional campaigns sponsored by the franchiser.
E)The franchisee gives up a certain amount of control when participating in a franchise agreement.
Q3) Intermediaries owned by manufacturers that sell products and provide support services to the manufacturers' sales forces are known as
A)manufacturers' agents.
B)sales branches.
C)selling agents.
D)sales offices.
E)commission merchants.
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Chapter 15: B:retailing, Direct Marketing, and Wholesaling
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Q1) Supermarkets specialize in selling shopping products.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The use of wholesalers permits producers to concentrate on developing and manufacturing products that match consumers' wants.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Appliances are an example of a major product line commonly carried by discount stores.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Mail-order wholesalers are limited-function wholesalers who sell through catalogs to retailers and organizational customers.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Selling agents have control over the marketing efforts of manufacturers and may be used in place of a marketing department.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 16: Integrated Marketing Communications
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Q1) Paid personal communication that seeks to inform customers and persuade them to purchase products in an exchange situation is
A)personal promotion.
B)advertising.
C)personal selling.
D)public relations.
E)individual promotion.
Q2) The individual or group that decodes a coded message is called a A)sender.
B)receiver.
C)source.
D)decoder.
E)receptor.
Q3) Cost efficiency, repetition, and adding product value are all potential benefits of A)public relations.
B)advertising.
C)personal selling.
D)promotion.
E)guerilla marketing.
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Chapter 17: Advertising and Public Relations
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Q1) What design element is used to attract attention, communicate an idea quickly, or communicate ideas that are difficult to put into words?
A)Illustrations
B)Headlines
C)Copy
D)Layout
E)Signature
Q2) A layout includes only the illustrations used in an advertisement.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The effectiveness of a public relations program is usually measured in terms of sales.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The choice of media influences the content and form of the message.
A)True
B)False
Q5) What are the major components of a media plan? What limitations must be considered as the media plan is implemented?
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Chapter 18: Personal Selling and Sales Promotion
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Q1) Two major categories of sales promotion methods are consumer and trade.
A)True
B)False
Q2) As Quaker Oats tries to decide how to introduce its new line of breakfast bars, it considers all the advantages and disadvantages of the various consumer sales promotion methods. After careful consideration, Quaker Oats decides to use ____, which are the most widely used form of consumer sales promotion.
A)free samples
B)rebates
C)point-of-purchase displays
D)coupons
E)cents-off offers
Q3) Which of the following is most likely to stimulate customer loyalty?
A)Coupons
B)Sweepstakes
C)Frequent-user incentives
D)Samples
E)Premiums
Q4) Explain the major issues to consider when developing a sales training program.
Q5) Discuss the major factors to consider when designing sales territories.
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