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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 Highlighting
B Outlining
C Coffee
D Flashcards
Question #3
A Skimming the material starting from the back of the chapter
B Look at charts, graphs, or pictures in the chapter
C Page through the material looking at the section headings, bold print, and italicized words
D If you are reading a novel read the first line of every paragraph
Question #4
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 #5
A Self-assessing
B Monitoring
C Goal-setting
D Regulating
Question #6
A Creating, evaluating, and analyzing are at the bottom of the Bloom pyramid
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 Bloom’s taxonomy is a way to help us understand our level of learning
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 discrimination blindness
B differences in form of address
C the reluctance of women to charge in cases of sexual harassment
D workplace dangers
Question #9
A the “glass cliff”
B ”dual burdens”
C the “mommy track”
D the “glass ceiling”
Question #10
A advocated by Mary Woolstonecraft
B accepts the notion of gender based dichotomies
C suggests society and the workplace need to take more seriously the perspectives and experiences of women
D suggests society and the workplace have systematically devalued women’s experience
Question #11
A it embraces the idea of interdependent relationships
B leads to decisions based upon “rationality tinged with humane concern”
C it goes against the traditional male view of classical philosophy
D there is no apparent independent criterion of right and wrong
Question #12
A the post-war economy proving greater employment opportunities for women
B 6 million women joining the workforce during World War II
C the rejection by many women of the role of being only mothers and homemakers
D women earn only 75% of men’s wages
Question #13
A to be allowed to drill on the outer continental shelf is a private right to be exercised
B it could have been prevented
C it can be traced to identifiable mistakes made by British Petroleum (BP), Halliburton, and Transocean
D it undermined public faith in the energy industry, government regulators and our own capability to respond to this kind of crisis
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 failures in corporate governance
D was the result of a systematic breakdown in accountability and ethics
Question #15
A employed thousands
B low employee wages
C ecologically friendly cosmetics
D expanded internationally with willing customers and competitive prices
Question #16
A it reflects the power and influence of its richer and more powerful nations
B their hearings are closed to the public
C nations do not have to abide by its rulings
D it is an unelected and undemocratic transnational authority
Question #17
A the race to the bottom
B industrial pollution “blows away” into other nations
C makes business more efficient and leads to greater worldwide prosperity
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 is a liberal (libertarian) market approach
C is protectionistic of national economies
D believes boosting fair competition will result in greater worldwide prosperity
Question #19
A it is used to mitigate business cycles
B it is encouraged by free market advocates like Ayn Rand and Robert Nozick
C it is used to protect personal rights in the work place
D it operates by means of regulations, taxation, and government spending
Question #20
A Russia making territorial claims on the Arctic
B Ammon Bundy’s group occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge
C Destruction of Gulf of Mexico resources by BP’s Deep Water Gulf Oil Disaster
D Mylan Pharmaceutical’s unjustified inflation of Epi-Pen pricing
Question #21
A producing sweatshop apparel where the costs for healthcare, unemployment and safety are borne by the employees and not the manufacturer
B failing to fix a car’s oil leak choosing instead to transfer the cost of the environmental burden to the community
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 goods with built in obsolescence
B shortages and pollution for future generations
C landfills and depleting resources
D the invisible hand
Question #23
A have considerable social and economic power to shape public opinion and legislative policy
B have no obligations to the society
C are run by executives who face a challenging ethical environment
D are a result of the industrial revolution
Question #24
A functions without government influence or modification
B encourages consumption of finite resources
C has resulted in a high standard of living with affordable goods and services
D has a profound influence over our everyday lives
Question #25
A ethical theory provides an analytical framework for making decisions about what we should do
B ethical theory provides the basis “normative action” based upon outcomes, duties, and virtues
C ethical theory is implemented within a wider context
D ethical theory will provide an easy recipe for right action in every case
Question #26
A capitalism makes a good servant to human flourishing, but a poor master
B capitalism sometimes needs to be monitored and corrected
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 recognizes that actions take place within communities and must be judged in those terms
B does not lend itself well to corporate statements and management literature
C requires role models
D evaluates actions as part of a continuing personal history
Question #28
A intellectual virtues make someone clever but not necessarily good
B virtues are not just learned in the classroom
C virtues are the same in any particular context
D virtues moderate or balance our feelings
Question #29
A concerned with duty to do what is right
B a teleological system
C the aim is eudaimonia
D learned from role models
Question #30
A Immanuel Kant
B Norman Bowie
C W.D. Ross
D Edward Freeman
Question #31
A Norman Bowie’s views of what is meaningful work
B the traditional view of capitalism
C Kantian capitalism
D Edward Freeman’s view of “stakeholder theory”
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 ethics is based on our ability to reason and our freedom of choice
B the morality of an act is determined by the amount of good or evil it produces
C determining moral action does not rely on outside evidence
D motives are of utmost importance in assessing morality
Question #34
A the problem of how to calculate future welfare
B utility is not always fair
C supererogation
D it may pose a threat to minority groups
Question #35
A partiality
B supererogation
C ”sour grapes” syndrome
D the problem of how to calculate future welfare
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 individual corporations can differ greatly in their goals and what they believe is appropriate behavior
B a mission statement shows that a company may not be purely egoistic
C a more outwardly directed mission statement recognizes the conflict between making a profit and meeting the needs of other stakeholders
D corporations are required to have a published mission statement
Question #38
A a life worth living comes from cooperative endeavors
B good and evil are names that signify our appetites and aversions
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 leader has to promote his own interests above all others
B right and wrong matter more than praise or blame
C it is safer to be feared than to be loved
D a bold leader should acquire and use power for his personal advantage
Question #40
A objectivists
B those who believe moral truths apply throughout space and time
C absolutists
D coherentists
Question #41
A demonstrates that most of our business dealings are based on mistrust
B advocated by economist Milton Friedman
C leads to a litigious society
D breeds the belief that the other business party is predatory
Question #42
A instrumental morality
B benign self-interest
C prudence
D intrinsic morality
Question #43
A role morality
B having a single set of ethical standards that apply throughout our life
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 metaethics
B normative ethics
C utilitarianism
D virtue ethics
Question #45
A it helps us make quick moral business decisions
B it helps us understand the nature of business and make moral judgments
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