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Below are the questions for the exam with the choices of answers:
Question #1
A Attend class or watch video lectures and take notes by hand
B Work in pairs or groups to study and review material
C Write your own test questions
D Taking good notes and relying on the lecture material makes buying the book unnecessary
Question #2
A Flashcards
B Coffee
C Highlighting
D Outlining
Question #3
A Page through the material looking at the section headings, bold print, and italicized words
B Skimming the material starting from the back of the chapter
C If you are reading a novel read the first line of every paragraph
D Look at charts, graphs, or pictures in the chapter
Question #4
A Previewing the material
B Paraphrasing the reading material as you go
C Writing down questions you want the reading material to answer
D Re-reading the material until you remember the key concepts
Question #5
A Goal-setting
B Regulating
C Monitoring
D Self-assessing
Question #6
A Bloom’s taxonomy is a way to help us understand our level of learning
B Bloom’s taxonomy is a hierarchy of learning levels
C Bloom’s taxonomy may be used to help us diagnose our level of learning
D Creating, evaluating, and analyzing are at the bottom of the Bloom pyramid
Question #7
A in 1996 she filed a sexual discrimination complaint against Morgan Stanley with the Equal Employment Opportunities Commission
B she settled her case four years later for $12 million
C 300 women filed similar complaints against Morgan Stanley
D these kinds of cases are exceedingly rare today
Question #8
A workplace dangers
B the reluctance of women to charge in cases of sexual harassment
C discrimination blindness
D differences in form of address
Question #9
A ”dual burdens”
B the “mommy track”
C the “glass cliff”
D the “glass ceiling”
Question #10
A suggests society and the workplace have systematically devalued women’s experience
B advocated by Mary Woolstonecraft
C accepts the notion of gender based dichotomies
D suggests society and the workplace need to take more seriously the perspectives and experiences of women
Question #11
A it goes against the traditional male view of classical philosophy
B it embraces the idea of interdependent relationships
C there is no apparent independent criterion of right and wrong
D leads to decisions based upon “rationality tinged with humane concern”
Question #12
A women earn only 75% of men’s wages
B the rejection by many women of the role of being only mothers and homemakers
C 6 million women joining the workforce during World War II
D the post-war economy proving greater employment opportunities for women
Question #13
A to be allowed to drill on the outer continental shelf is a private right to be exercised
B it undermined public faith in the energy industry, government regulators and our own capability to respond to this kind of crisis
C it can be traced to identifiable mistakes made by British Petroleum (BP), Halliburton, and Transocean
D it could have been prevented
Question #14
A was the result of failures in corporate governance
B the financial crisis was unavoidable
C was the result of a combination of excessive borrowing, risky investments and a lack of transparency
D was the result of a systematic breakdown in accountability and ethics
Question #15
A ecologically friendly cosmetics
B employed thousands
C low employee wages
D expanded internationally with willing customers and competitive prices
Question #16
A their hearings are closed to the public
B nations do not have to abide by its rulings
C it reflects the power and influence of its richer and more powerful nations
D it is an unelected and undemocratic transnational authority
Question #17
A industrial pollution “blows away” into other nations
B makes business more efficient and leads to greater worldwide prosperity
C the race to the bottom
D borders are open for trade but closed to immigrants who want jobs
Question #18
A has accelerated since 1995 with the formation of the World Trade Organization (WTO)
B believes boosting fair competition will result in greater worldwide prosperity
C is protectionistic of national economies
D is a liberal (libertarian) market approach
Question #19
A it is used to protect personal rights in the work place
B it is encouraged by free market advocates like Ayn Rand and Robert Nozick
C it is used to mitigate business cycles
D it operates by means of regulations, taxation, and government spending
Question #20
A Mylan Pharmaceutical’s unjustified inflation of Epi-Pen pricing
B Ammon Bundy’s group occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge
C Russia making territorial claims on the Arctic
D Destruction of Gulf of Mexico resources by BP’s Deep Water Gulf Oil Disaster
Question #21
A failing to fix a car’s oil leak choosing instead to transfer the cost of the environmental burden to the community
B producing sweatshop apparel where the costs for healthcare, unemployment and safety are borne by the employees and not the manufacturer
C CocaCola, PepsiCo, and Cadbury-Schweppes control of 90% of the US soft drink market
D people living near a coal-fired power plant who must clean the power plant’s soot off their laundry
Question #22
A the invisible hand
B landfills and depleting resources
C goods with built in obsolescence
D shortages and pollution for future generations
Question #23
A have considerable social and economic power to shape public opinion and legislative policy
B are a result of the industrial revolution
C have no obligations to the society
D are run by executives who face a challenging ethical environment
Question #24
A has a profound influence over our everyday lives
B has resulted in a high standard of living with affordable goods and services
C encourages consumption of finite resources
D functions without government influence or modification
Question #25
A ethical theory is implemented within a wider context
B ethical theory provides an analytical framework for making decisions about what we should do
C ethical theory provides the basis “normative action” based upon outcomes, duties, and virtues
D ethical theory will provide an easy recipe for right action in every case
Question #26
A capitalism sometimes needs to be monitored and corrected
B capitalism makes a good servant to human flourishing, but a poor master
C capitalism left unchecked may lead to excessive, unreasonable, and/or harmful acts
D Adam Smith advocated making merchants and manufacturers “rulers of mankind”
Question #27
A does not lend itself well to corporate statements and management literature
B recognizes that actions take place within communities and must be judged in those terms
C requires role models
D evaluates actions as part of a continuing personal history
Question #28
A virtues are not just learned in the classroom
B virtues are the same in any particular context
C virtues moderate or balance our feelings
D intellectual virtues make someone clever but not necessarily good
Question #29
A learned from role models
B concerned with duty to do what is right
C a teleological system
D the aim is eudaimonia
Question #30
A Norman Bowie
B Edward Freeman
C W.D. Ross
D Immanuel Kant
Question #31
A Kantian capitalism
B Edward Freeman’s view of “stakeholder theory”
C the traditional view of capitalism
D Norman Bowie’s views of what is meaningful work
Question #32
A moral action is imperative because we have no alternative to do otherwise
B moral laws apply categorically in all circumstances
C maxims can be tested by whether or not they are consistent
D moral actions are based upon our feelings
Question #33
A the morality of an act is determined by the amount of good or evil it produces
B motives are of utmost importance in assessing morality
C ethics is based on our ability to reason and our freedom of choice
D determining moral action does not rely on outside evidence
Question #34
A it may pose a threat to minority groups
B utility is not always fair
C the problem of how to calculate future welfare
D supererogation
Question #35
A ”sour grapes” syndrome
B partiality
C the problem of how to calculate future welfare
D supererogation
Question #36
A the many stakeholders and their incompatible interests
B the similarity between legal and moral responsibility
C the many factors we have to consider
D the difficulty in analyzing ethical issues in business
Question #37
A a mission statement shows that a company may not be purely egoistic
B individual corporations can differ greatly in their goals and what they believe is appropriate behavior
C corporations are required to have a published mission statement
D a more outwardly directed mission statement recognizes the conflict between making a profit and meeting the needs of other stakeholders
Question #38
A good and evil are names that signify our appetites and aversions
B a life worth living comes from cooperative endeavors
C it is always in our best interest to compete and dominate
D we tend to be more cooperative if we have to deal with the same people over and over
Question #39
A a bold leader should acquire and use power for his personal advantage
B it is safer to be feared than to be loved
C a leader has to promote his own interests above all others
D right and wrong matter more than praise or blame
Question #40
A absolutists
B coherentists
C those who believe moral truths apply throughout space and time
D objectivists
Question #41
A breeds the belief that the other business party is predatory
B demonstrates that most of our business dealings are based on mistrust
C advocated by economist Milton Friedman
D leads to a litigious society
Question #42
A prudence
B intrinsic morality
C benign self-interest
D instrumental morality
Question #43
A having a single set of ethical standards that apply throughout our life
B role morality
C making no distinction between different roles in our lives and what is moral behavior
D having a baseline of moral decency consistent throughout our lives
Question #44
A utilitarianism
B normative ethics
C metaethics
D virtue ethics
Question #45
A it helps us make quick moral business decisions
B it helps us examine the fundamental assumptions and conceptual foundations of business
C it helps us understand the nature of business and make moral judgments
D it helps us examine the arguments businesses use for their actions