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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 Taking good notes and relying on the lecture material makes buying the book unnecessary
C Work in pairs or groups to study and review material
D Attend class or watch video lectures and take notes by hand
Question #2
A Outlining
B Highlighting
C Coffee
D Flashcards
Question #3
A Page through the material looking at the section headings, bold print, and italicized words
B If you are reading a novel read the first line of every paragraph
C Skimming the material starting from the back of the chapter
D Look at charts, graphs, or pictures in the chapter
Question #4
A Re-reading the material until you remember the key concepts
B Previewing the material
C Paraphrasing the reading material as you go
D Writing down questions you want the reading material to answer
Question #5
A Goal-setting
B Regulating
C Monitoring
D Self-assessing
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 is a way to help us understand our level of learning
D Bloom’s taxonomy may be used to help us diagnose our level of learning
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 300 women filed similar complaints against Morgan Stanley
D these kinds of cases are exceedingly rare today
Question #8
A differences in form of address
B discrimination blindness
C the reluctance of women to charge in cases of sexual harassment
D workplace dangers
Question #9
A the “glass ceiling”
B the “glass cliff”
C ”dual burdens”
D the “mommy track”
Question #10
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 advocated by Mary Woolstonecraft
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 it embraces the idea of interdependent relationships
D there is no apparent independent criterion of right and wrong
Question #12
A women earn only 75% of men’s wages
B 6 million women joining the workforce during World War II
C the post-war economy proving greater employment opportunities for women
D the rejection by many women of the role of being only mothers and homemakers
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 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 ecologically friendly cosmetics
B low employee wages
C employed thousands
D expanded internationally with willing customers and competitive prices
Question #16
A their hearings are closed to the public
B it reflects the power and influence of its richer and more powerful nations
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 borders are open for trade but closed to immigrants who want jobs
D makes business more efficient and leads to greater worldwide prosperity
Question #18
A has accelerated since 1995 with the formation of the World Trade Organization (WTO)
B is a liberal (libertarian) market approach
C believes boosting fair competition will result in greater worldwide prosperity
D is protectionistic of national economies
Question #19
A it is used to protect personal rights in the work place
B it operates by means of regulations, taxation, and government spending
C it is used to mitigate business cycles
D it is encouraged by free market advocates like Ayn Rand and Robert Nozick
Question #20
A Ammon Bundy’s group occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge
B Russia making territorial claims on the Arctic
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 people living near a coal-fired power plant who must clean the power plant’s soot off their laundry
B producing sweatshop apparel where the costs for healthcare, unemployment and safety are borne by the employees and not the manufacturer
C failing to fix a car’s oil leak choosing instead to transfer the cost of the environmental burden to the community
D CocaCola, PepsiCo, and Cadbury-Schweppes control of 90% of the US soft drink market
Question #22
A shortages and pollution for future generations
B landfills and depleting resources
C goods with built in obsolescence
D the invisible hand
Question #23
A are run by executives who face a challenging ethical environment
B are a result of the industrial revolution
C have no obligations to the society
D have considerable social and economic power to shape public opinion and legislative policy
Question #24
A has resulted in a high standard of living with affordable goods and services
B functions without government influence or modification
C has a profound influence over our everyday lives
D encourages consumption of finite resources
Question #25
A ethical theory provides an analytical framework for making decisions about what we should do
B ethical theory is implemented within a wider context
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 makes a good servant to human flourishing, but a poor master
B Adam Smith advocated making merchants and manufacturers “rulers of mankind”
C capitalism left unchecked may lead to excessive, unreasonable, and/or harmful acts
D capitalism sometimes needs to be monitored and corrected
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 virtues are the same in any particular context
B virtues are not just learned in the classroom
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 the aim is eudaimonia
D a teleological system
Question #30
A Norman Bowie
B Immanuel Kant
C Edward Freeman
D W.D. Ross
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 laws apply categorically in all circumstances
B maxims can be tested by whether or not they are consistent
C moral actions are based upon our feelings
D moral action is imperative because we have no alternative to do otherwise
Question #33
A the morality of an act is determined by the amount of good or evil it produces
B determining moral action does not rely on outside evidence
C motives are of utmost importance in assessing morality
D ethics is based on our ability to reason and our freedom of choice
Question #34
A it may pose a threat to minority groups
B utility is not always fair
C supererogation
D the problem of how to calculate future welfare
Question #35
A ”sour grapes” syndrome
B supererogation
C the problem of how to calculate future welfare
D partiality
Question #36
A the similarity between legal and moral responsibility
B the many factors we have to consider
C the many stakeholders and their incompatible interests
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 a more outwardly directed mission statement recognizes the conflict between making a profit and meeting the needs of other stakeholders
C corporations are required to have a published mission statement
D individual corporations can differ greatly in their goals and what they believe is appropriate behavior
Question #38
A good and evil are names that signify our appetites and aversions
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 a life worth living comes from cooperative endeavors
Question #39
A a leader has to promote his own interests above all others
B a bold leader should acquire and use power for his personal advantage
C it is safer to be feared than to be loved
D right and wrong matter more than praise or blame
Question #40
A absolutists
B those who believe moral truths apply throughout space and time
C coherentists
D objectivists
Question #41
A leads to a litigious society
B advocated by economist Milton Friedman
C breeds the belief that the other business party is predatory
D demonstrates that most of our business dealings are based on mistrust
Question #42
A intrinsic morality
B prudence
C benign self-interest
D instrumental morality
Question #43
A role morality
B making no distinction between different roles in our lives and what is moral behavior
C having a baseline of moral decency consistent throughout our lives
D having a single set of ethical standards that apply throughout our life
Question #44
A metaethics
B virtue ethics
C utilitarianism
D normative ethics
Question #45
A it helps us understand the nature of business and make moral judgments
B it helps us examine the fundamental assumptions and conceptual foundations of business
C it helps us make quick moral business decisions
D it helps us examine the arguments businesses use for their actions