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Midterm 2 (2)

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Below are the questions for the exam with the choices of answers:

Question #1
A  Write your own test questions
B  Attend class or watch video lectures and take notes by hand
C  Taking good notes and relying on the lecture material makes buying the book unnecessary
D  Work in pairs or groups to study and review material
Question #2
A  The more you highlight the better
B  Highlighting key terms, questions, and key names is a way to preview material before you read the chapter.
C  Highlight different elements, i.e. key terms, key names, and questions in different colors
D  Highlight “breadcrumbs” left by the author, like “There are three reasons…First…Second…Third”
Question #3
A  Coffee
B  Highlighting
C  Outlining
D  Flashcards
Question #4
A  Skimming the material starting from the back of the chapter
B  If you are reading a novel read the first line of every paragraph
C  Page through the material looking at the section headings, bold print, and italicized words
D  Look at charts, graphs, or pictures in the chapter
Question #5
A  Re-reading the material until you remember the key concepts
B  Paraphrasing the reading material as you go
C  Previewing the material
D  Writing down questions you want the reading material to answer
Question #6
A  Regulating
B  Monitoring
C  Goal-setting
D  Self-assessing
Question #7
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 #8
A  employers perceive women as more compliant
B  women have less access to capital
C  women who are no longer engaged in subsistence farming must seek seasonal employment
D  fewer women have entered the workplace as a result of globalization
Question #9
A  these kinds of cases are exceedingly rare today
B  300 women filed similar complaints against Morgan Stanley
C  in 1996 she filed a sexual discrimination complaint against Morgan Stanley with the Equal Employment Opportunities Commission
D  she settled her case four years later for $12 million
Question #10
A  differences in form of address
B  the reluctance of women to charge in cases of sexual harassment
C  discrimination blindness
D  workplace dangers
Question #11
A  the “glass ceiling”
B  the “glass cliff”
C  the “mommy track”
D  ”dual burdens”
Question #12
A  suggests society and the workplace need to take more seriously the perspectives and experiences of women
B  accepts the notion of gender based dichotomies
C  suggests society and the workplace have systematically devalued women’s experience
D  advocated by Mary Woolstonecraft
Question #13
A  there is no apparent independent criterion of right and wrong
B  it goes against the traditional male view of classical philosophy
C  it embraces the idea of interdependent relationships
D  leads to decisions based upon “rationality tinged with humane concern”
Question #14
A  traditional conceptual dichotomies
B  essentialism
C  traditional gender stereotypes
D  gender egalitarianism
Question #15
A  the differences between men and women are “illusory”
B  the differences between men and women are the result of “socialization”
C  the differences are based on age not gender
D  men and women are “hard wired” to have differences
Question #16
A  equal opportunity in hiring and promotion
B  women are systematically disadvantaged
C  removing barriers to education
D  equal pay for equal work
Question #17
A  the rejection by many women of the role of being only mothers and homemakers
B  the post-war economy proving greater employment opportunities for women
C  women earn only 75% of men’s wages
D  6 million women joining the workforce during World War II
Question #18
A  it could have been prevented
B  it undermined public faith in the energy industry, government regulators and our own capability to respond to this kind of crisis
C  to be allowed to drill on the outer continental shelf is a private right to be exercised
D  it can be traced to identifiable mistakes made by British Petroleum (BP), Halliburton, and Transocean
Question #19
A  was the result of a combination of excessive borrowing, risky investments and a lack of transparency
B  was the result of a systematic breakdown in accountability and ethics
C  the financial crisis was unavoidable
D  was the result of failures in corporate governance
Question #20
A  employed thousands
B  low employee wages
C  ecologically friendly cosmetics
D  expanded internationally with willing customers and competitive prices
Question #21
A  it is an unelected and undemocratic transnational authority
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  their hearings are closed to the public
Question #22
A  makes business more efficient and leads to greater worldwide prosperity
B  the race to the bottom
C  borders are open for trade but closed to immigrants who want jobs
D  industrial pollution “blows away” into other nations
Question #23
A  believes boosting fair competition will result in greater worldwide prosperity
B  is protectionistic of national economies
C  is a liberal (libertarian) market approach
D  has accelerated since 1995 with the formation of the World Trade Organization (WTO)
Question #24
A  it is encouraged by free market advocates like Ayn Rand and Robert Nozick
B  it is used to mitigate business cycles
C  it is used to protect personal rights in the work place
D  it operates by means of regulations, taxation, and government spending
Question #25
A  Destruction of Gulf of Mexico resources by BP’s Deep Water Gulf Oil Disaster
B  Ammon Bundy’s group occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge
C  Russia making territorial claims on the Arctic
D  Mylan Pharmaceutical’s unjustified inflation of Epi-Pen pricing
Question #26
A  CocaCola, PepsiCo, and Cadbury-Schweppes control of 90% of the US soft drink market
B  people living near a coal-fired power plant who must clean the power plant’s soot off their laundry
C  failing to fix a car’s oil leak choosing instead to transfer the cost of the environmental burden to the community
D  producing sweatshop apparel where the costs for healthcare, unemployment and safety are borne by the employees and not the manufacturer
Question #27
A  implies that business has a duty to provide moral goods and services to customers
B  consumers vote with their wallets
C  businesses are a conduit for consumers’ demands
D  consumer reaction to moral issues is combined with other factors
Question #28
A  goods with built in obsolescence
B  landfills and depleting resources
C  the invisible hand
D  shortages and pollution for future generations
Question #29
A  have considerable social and economic power to shape public opinion and legislative policy
B  are run by executives who face a challenging ethical environment
C  are a result of the industrial revolution
D  have no obligations to the society
Question #30
A  functions without government influence or modification
B  has resulted in a high standard of living with affordable goods and services
C  encourages consumption of finite resources
D  has a profound influence over our everyday lives
Question #31
A  ethical theory provides the basis “normative action” based upon outcomes, duties, and virtues
B  ethical theory will provide an easy recipe for right action in every case
C  ethical theory is implemented within a wider context
D  ethical theory provides an analytical framework for making decisions about what we should do
Question #32
A  capitalism sometimes needs to be monitored and corrected
B  Adam Smith advocated making merchants and manufacturers “rulers of mankind”
C  capitalism makes a good servant to human flourishing, but a poor master
D  capitalism left unchecked may lead to excessive, unreasonable, and/or harmful acts
Question #33
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 #34
A  virtues moderate or balance our feelings
B  virtues are not just learned in the classroom
C  virtues are the same in any particular context
D  intellectual virtues make someone clever but not necessarily good
Question #35
A  learned from role models
B  the aim is eudaimonia
C  concerned with duty to do what is right
D  a teleological system
Question #36
A  Kantian capitalism
B  Norman Bowie’s views of what is meaningful work
C  Edward Freeman’s view of “stakeholder theory”
D  the traditional view of capitalism
Question #37
A  moral action is imperative because we have no alternative to do otherwise
B  maxims can be tested by whether or not they are consistent
C  moral laws apply categorically in all circumstances
D  moral actions are based upon our feelings
Question #38
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 #39
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 #40
A  partiality
B  ”sour grapes” syndrome
C  the problem of how to calculate future welfare
D  supererogation
Question #41
A  the similarity between legal and moral responsibility
B  the difficulty in analyzing ethical issues in business
C  the many stakeholders and their incompatible interests
D  the many factors we have to consider
Question #42
A  a mission statement shows that a company may not be purely egoistic
B  corporations are required to have a published mission statement
C  individual corporations can differ greatly in their goals and what they believe is appropriate behavior
D  a more outwardly directed mission statement recognizes the conflict between making a profit and meeting the needs of other stakeholders
Question #43
A  right and wrong matter more than praise or blame
B  a bold leader should acquire and use power for his personal advantage
C  a leader has to promote his own interests above all others
D  it is safer to be feared than to be loved
Question #44
A  coherentists
B  absolutists
C  objectivists
D  those who believe moral truths apply throughout space and time
Question #45
A  advocated by economist Milton Friedman
B  leads to a litigious society
C  demonstrates that most of our business dealings are based on mistrust
D  breeds the belief that the other business party is predatory
Question #46
A  prudence
B  instrumental morality
C  benign self-interest
D  intrinsic morality
Question #47
A  role morality
B  having a baseline of moral decency consistent throughout our lives
C  having a single set of ethical standards that apply throughout our life
D  making no distinction between different roles in our lives and what is moral behavior
Question #48
A  normative ethics
B  virtue ethics
C  utilitarianism
D  metaethics
Question #49
A  it helps us make quick moral business decisions
B  it helps us examine the arguments businesses use for their actions
C  it helps us examine the fundamental assumptions and conceptual foundations of business
D  it helps us understand the nature of business and make moral judgments