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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 Taking good notes and relying on the lecture material makes buying the book unnecessary
D Write your own test questions
Question #2
A Highlighting
B Outlining
C Flashcards
D Coffee
Question #3
A Look at charts, graphs, or pictures in the chapter
B Page through the material looking at the section headings, bold print, and italicized words
C If you are reading a novel read the first line of every paragraph
D Skimming the material starting from the back of the chapter
Question #4
A Paraphrasing the reading material as you go
B Previewing the material
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 Self-assessing
B Goal-setting
C Regulating
D Monitoring
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 Creating, evaluating, and analyzing are at the bottom of the Bloom pyramid
D Bloom’s taxonomy may be used to help us diagnose our level of learning
Question #7
A these kinds of cases are exceedingly rare today
B she settled her case four years later for $12 million
C 300 women filed similar complaints against Morgan Stanley
D in 1996 she filed a sexual discrimination complaint against Morgan Stanley with the Equal Employment Opportunities Commission
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 ceiling”
B the “mommy track”
C ”dual burdens”
D the “glass cliff”
Question #10
A suggests society and the workplace have systematically devalued women’s experience
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 advocated by Mary Woolstonecraft
Question #11
A leads to decisions based upon “rationality tinged with humane concern”
B it goes against the traditional male view of classical philosophy
C it embraces the idea of interdependent relationships
D there is no apparent independent criterion of right and wrong
Question #12
A 6 million women joining the workforce during World War II
B women earn only 75% of men’s wages
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 it can be traced to identifiable mistakes made by British Petroleum (BP), Halliburton, and Transocean
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 could have been prevented
Question #14
A was the result of failures in corporate governance
B was the result of a systematic breakdown in accountability and ethics
C the financial crisis was unavoidable
D was the result of a combination of excessive borrowing, risky investments and a lack of transparency
Question #15
A employed thousands
B expanded internationally with willing customers and competitive prices
C low employee wages
D ecologically friendly cosmetics
Question #16
A nations do not have to abide by its rulings
B it is an unelected and undemocratic transnational authority
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 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 is protectionistic of national economies
B believes boosting fair competition will result in greater worldwide prosperity
C is a liberal (libertarian) market approach
D has accelerated since 1995 with the formation of the World Trade Organization (WTO)
Question #19
A it operates by means of regulations, taxation, and government spending
B it is encouraged by free market advocates like Ayn Rand and Robert Nozick
C it is used to mitigate business cycles
D it is used to protect personal rights in the work place
Question #20
A Destruction of Gulf of Mexico resources by BP’s Deep Water Gulf Oil Disaster
B Mylan Pharmaceutical’s unjustified inflation of Epi-Pen pricing
C Russia making territorial claims on the Arctic
D Ammon Bundy’s group occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge
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 people living near a coal-fired power plant who must clean the power plant’s soot off their laundry
C CocaCola, PepsiCo, and Cadbury-Schweppes control of 90% of the US soft drink market
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 shortages and pollution for future generations
C goods with built in obsolescence
D landfills and depleting resources
Question #23
A are a result of the industrial revolution
B have no obligations to the society
C are run by executives who face a challenging ethical environment
D have considerable social and economic power to shape public opinion and legislative policy
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 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 capitalism left unchecked may lead to excessive, unreasonable, and/or harmful acts
C capitalism sometimes needs to be monitored and corrected
D Adam Smith advocated making merchants and manufacturers “rulers of mankind”
Question #27
A requires role models
B does not lend itself well to corporate statements and management literature
C evaluates actions as part of a continuing personal history
D recognizes that actions take place within communities and must be judged in those terms
Question #28
A virtues are the same in any particular context
B intellectual virtues make someone clever but not necessarily good
C virtues are not just learned in the classroom
D virtues moderate or balance our feelings
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 W.D. Ross
B Immanuel Kant
C Edward Freeman
D Norman Bowie
Question #31
A Edward Freeman’s view of “stakeholder theory”
B Norman Bowie’s views of what is meaningful work
C Kantian capitalism
D the traditional view of capitalism
Question #32
A maxims can be tested by whether or not they are consistent
B moral action is imperative because we have no alternative to do otherwise
C moral laws apply categorically in all circumstances
D moral actions are based upon our feelings
Question #33
A ethics is based on our ability to reason and our freedom of choice
B determining moral action does not rely on outside evidence
C the morality of an act is determined by the amount of good or evil it produces
D motives are of utmost importance in assessing morality
Question #34
A utility is not always fair
B supererogation
C the problem of how to calculate future welfare
D it may pose a threat to minority groups
Question #35
A supererogation
B ”sour grapes” syndrome
C partiality
D the problem of how to calculate future welfare
Question #36
A the many stakeholders and their incompatible interests
B the difficulty in analyzing ethical issues in business
C the similarity between legal and moral responsibility
D the many factors we have to consider
Question #37
A corporations are required to have a published mission statement
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 individual corporations can differ greatly in their goals and what they believe is appropriate behavior
Question #38
A a life worth living comes from cooperative endeavors
B it is always in our best interest to compete and dominate
C good and evil are names that signify our appetites and aversions
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 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 absolutists
B those who believe moral truths apply throughout space and time
C objectivists
D coherentists
Question #41
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 #42
A intrinsic morality
B benign self-interest
C prudence
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 utilitarianism
B metaethics
C normative ethics
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