Navigation » List of Schools » California State University, Northridge » Religion » Religious Studies 361 – Contemporary Ethical Issues » Fall 2021 » Midterm 2
Below are the questions for the exam with the choices of answers:
Question #1
A Taking good notes and relying on the lecture material makes buying the book unnecessary
B Work in pairs or groups to study and review material
C Write your own test questions
D Attend class or watch video lectures and take notes by hand
Question #2
A Flashcards
B Coffee
C Outlining
D Highlighting
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 Re-reading the material until you remember the key concepts
B Writing down questions you want the reading material to answer
C Paraphrasing the reading material as you go
D Previewing the material
Question #5
A Monitoring
B Self-assessing
C Goal-setting
D Regulating
Question #6
A Bloom’s taxonomy may be used to help us diagnose our level of learning
B Bloom’s taxonomy is a way to help us understand our level of learning
C Creating, evaluating, and analyzing are at the bottom of the Bloom pyramid
D Bloom’s taxonomy is a hierarchy of learning levels
Question #7
A she settled her case four years later for $12 million
B in 1996 she filed a sexual discrimination complaint against Morgan Stanley with the Equal Employment Opportunities Commission
C these kinds of cases are exceedingly rare today
D 300 women filed similar complaints against Morgan Stanley
Question #8
A differences in form of address
B discrimination blindness
C workplace dangers
D the reluctance of women to charge in cases of sexual harassment
Question #9
A the “glass cliff”
B the “mommy track”
C the “glass ceiling”
D ”dual burdens”
Question #10
A advocated by Mary Woolstonecraft
B suggests society and the workplace need to take more seriously the perspectives and experiences of women
C accepts the notion of gender based dichotomies
D suggests society and the workplace have systematically devalued women’s experience
Question #11
A it goes against the traditional male view of classical philosophy
B leads to decisions based upon “rationality tinged with humane concern”
C there is no apparent independent criterion of right and wrong
D it embraces the idea of interdependent relationships
Question #12
A 6 million women joining the workforce during World War II
B the post-war economy proving greater employment opportunities for women
C women earn only 75% of men’s wages
D the rejection by many women of the role of being only mothers and homemakers
Question #13
A it undermined public faith in the energy industry, government regulators and our own capability to respond to this kind of crisis
B to be allowed to drill on the outer continental shelf is a private right to be exercised
C it could have been prevented
D it can be traced to identifiable mistakes made by British Petroleum (BP), Halliburton, and Transocean
Question #14
A the financial crisis was unavoidable
B was the result of a combination of excessive borrowing, risky investments and a lack of transparency
C was the result of a systematic breakdown in accountability and ethics
D was the result of failures in corporate governance
Question #15
A expanded internationally with willing customers and competitive prices
B employed thousands
C low employee wages
D ecologically friendly cosmetics
Question #16
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 #17
A borders are open for trade but closed to immigrants who want jobs
B makes business more efficient and leads to greater worldwide prosperity
C industrial pollution “blows away” into other nations
D the race to the bottom
Question #18
A has accelerated since 1995 with the formation of the World Trade Organization (WTO)
B is protectionistic of national economies
C is a liberal (libertarian) market approach
D believes boosting fair competition will result in greater worldwide prosperity
Question #19
A it operates by means of regulations, taxation, and government spending
B it is used to mitigate business cycles
C it is used to protect personal rights in the work place
D it is encouraged by free market advocates like Ayn Rand and Robert Nozick
Question #20
A Russia making territorial claims on the Arctic
B Mylan Pharmaceutical’s unjustified inflation of Epi-Pen pricing
C Ammon Bundy’s group occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge
D Destruction of Gulf of Mexico resources by BP’s Deep Water Gulf Oil Disaster
Question #21
A CocaCola, PepsiCo, and Cadbury-Schweppes control of 90% of the US soft drink market
B failing to fix a car’s oil leak choosing instead to transfer the cost of the environmental burden to the community
C people living near a coal-fired power plant who must clean the power plant’s soot off their laundry
D producing sweatshop apparel where the costs for healthcare, unemployment and safety are borne by the employees and not the manufacturer
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 no obligations to the society
B have considerable social and economic power to shape public opinion and legislative policy
C are a result of the industrial revolution
D are run by executives who face a challenging ethical environment
Question #24
A has resulted in a high standard of living with affordable goods and services
B encourages consumption of finite resources
C has a profound influence over our everyday lives
D functions without government influence or modification
Question #25
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 #26
A capitalism makes a good servant to human flourishing, but a poor master
B Adam Smith advocated making merchants and manufacturers “rulers of mankind”
C capitalism sometimes needs to be monitored and corrected
D capitalism left unchecked may lead to excessive, unreasonable, and/or harmful acts
Question #27
A recognizes that actions take place within communities and must be judged in those terms
B requires role models
C does not lend itself well to corporate statements and management literature
D evaluates actions as part of a continuing personal history
Question #28
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 #29
A a teleological system
B learned from role models
C the aim is eudaimonia
D concerned with duty to do what is right
Question #30
A W.D. Ross
B Edward Freeman
C Immanuel Kant
D Norman Bowie
Question #31
A Edward Freeman’s view of “stakeholder theory”
B Kantian capitalism
C the traditional view of capitalism
D Norman Bowie’s views of what is meaningful work
Question #32
A moral actions are based upon our feelings
B moral laws apply categorically in all circumstances
C maxims can be tested by whether or not they are consistent
D moral action is imperative because we have no alternative to do otherwise
Question #33
A determining moral action does not rely on outside evidence
B motives are of utmost importance in assessing morality
C ethics is based on our ability to reason and our freedom of choice
D the morality of an act is determined by the amount of good or evil it produces
Question #34
A supererogation
B the problem of how to calculate future welfare
C utility is not always fair
D it may pose a threat to minority groups
Question #35
A ”sour grapes” syndrome
B the problem of how to calculate future welfare
C partiality
D supererogation
Question #36
A the many factors we have to consider
B the difficulty in analyzing ethical issues in business
C the similarity between legal and moral responsibility
D the many stakeholders and their incompatible interests
Question #37
A a mission statement shows that a company may not be purely egoistic
B a more outwardly directed mission statement recognizes the conflict between making a profit and meeting the needs of other stakeholders
C individual corporations can differ greatly in their goals and what they believe is appropriate behavior
D corporations are required to have a published mission statement
Question #38
A a life worth living comes from cooperative endeavors
B we tend to be more cooperative if we have to deal with the same people over and over
C it is always in our best interest to compete and dominate
D good and evil are names that signify our appetites and aversions
Question #39
A a bold leader should acquire and use power for his personal advantage
B right and wrong matter more than praise or blame
C a leader has to promote his own interests above all others
D it is safer to be feared than to be loved
Question #40
A coherentists
B those who believe moral truths apply throughout space and time
C objectivists
D absolutists
Question #41
A advocated by economist Milton Friedman
B demonstrates that most of our business dealings are based on mistrust
C breeds the belief that the other business party is predatory
D leads to a litigious society
Question #42
A prudence
B benign self-interest
C instrumental morality
D intrinsic morality
Question #43
A having a baseline of moral decency consistent throughout our lives
B having a single set of ethical standards that apply throughout our life
C role morality
D making no distinction between different roles in our lives and what is moral behavior
Question #44
A normative ethics
B utilitarianism
C metaethics
D virtue ethics
Question #45
A it helps us understand the nature of business and make moral judgments
B it helps us make quick moral business decisions
C it helps us examine the fundamental assumptions and conceptual foundations of business
D it helps us examine the arguments businesses use for their actions