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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 Highlighting
B Outlining
C Coffee
D Flashcards
Question #3
A If you are reading a novel read the first line of every paragraph
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 Skimming the material starting from the back of the chapter
Question #4
A Paraphrasing the reading material as you go
B Re-reading the material until you remember the key concepts
C Previewing the material
D Writing down questions you want the reading material to answer
Question #5
A Regulating
B Monitoring
C Self-assessing
D Goal-setting
Question #6
A Bloom’s taxonomy is a hierarchy of learning levels
B Bloom’s taxonomy may be used to help us diagnose our level of learning
C Bloom’s taxonomy is a way to help us understand our level of learning
D Creating, evaluating, and analyzing are at the bottom of the Bloom pyramid
Question #7
A in 1996 she filed a sexual discrimination complaint against Morgan Stanley with the Equal Employment Opportunities Commission
B 300 women filed similar complaints against Morgan Stanley
C these kinds of cases are exceedingly rare today
D she settled her case four years later for $12 million
Question #8
A discrimination blindness
B workplace dangers
C differences in form of address
D the reluctance of women to charge in cases of sexual harassment
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 have systematically devalued women’s experience
B advocated by Mary Woolstonecraft
C suggests society and the workplace need to take more seriously the perspectives and experiences of women
D accepts the notion of gender based dichotomies
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 the post-war economy proving greater employment opportunities for women
B the rejection by many women of the role of being only mothers and homemakers
C women earn only 75% of men’s wages
D 6 million women joining the workforce during World War II
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 it can be traced to identifiable mistakes made by British Petroleum (BP), Halliburton, and Transocean
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 a systematic breakdown in accountability and ethics
B was the result of failures in corporate governance
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 low employee wages
B expanded internationally with willing customers and competitive prices
C employed thousands
D ecologically friendly cosmetics
Question #16
A it is an unelected and undemocratic transnational authority
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 their hearings are closed to the public
Question #17
A the race to the bottom
B makes business more efficient and leads to greater worldwide prosperity
C industrial pollution “blows away” into other nations
D borders are open for trade but closed to immigrants who want jobs
Question #18
A is a liberal (libertarian) market approach
B believes boosting fair competition will result in greater worldwide prosperity
C has accelerated since 1995 with the formation of the World Trade Organization (WTO)
D is protectionistic of national economies
Question #19
A it is used to mitigate business cycles
B it operates by means of regulations, taxation, and government spending
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 Destruction of Gulf of Mexico resources by BP’s Deep Water Gulf Oil Disaster
C Ammon Bundy’s group occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge
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 CocaCola, PepsiCo, and Cadbury-Schweppes control of 90% of the US soft drink market
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 #22
A landfills and depleting resources
B goods with built in obsolescence
C the invisible hand
D shortages and pollution for future generations
Question #23
A are run by executives who face a challenging ethical environment
B have no obligations to the society
C have considerable social and economic power to shape public opinion and legislative policy
D are a result of the industrial revolution
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 will provide an easy recipe for right action in every case
B ethical theory is implemented within a wider context
C ethical theory provides an analytical framework for making decisions about what we should do
D ethical theory provides the basis “normative action” based upon outcomes, duties, and virtues
Question #26
A capitalism left unchecked may lead to excessive, unreasonable, and/or harmful acts
B Adam Smith advocated making merchants and manufacturers “rulers of mankind”
C capitalism sometimes needs to be monitored and corrected
D capitalism makes a good servant to human flourishing, but a poor master
Question #27
A does not lend itself well to corporate statements and management literature
B evaluates actions as part of a continuing personal history
C requires role models
D recognizes that actions take place within communities and must be judged in those terms
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 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 Norman Bowie
B Edward Freeman
C W.D. Ross
D Immanuel Kant
Question #31
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 #32
A moral actions are based upon our feelings
B moral laws apply categorically in all circumstances
C moral action is imperative because we have no alternative to do otherwise
D maxims can be tested by whether or not they are consistent
Question #33
A determining moral action does not rely on outside evidence
B the morality of an act is determined by the amount of good or evil it produces
C ethics is based on our ability to reason and our freedom of choice
D motives are of utmost importance in assessing morality
Question #34
A supererogation
B it may pose a threat to minority groups
C the problem of how to calculate future welfare
D utility is not always fair
Question #35
A ”sour grapes” syndrome
B supererogation
C the problem of how to calculate future welfare
D partiality
Question #36
A the difficulty in analyzing ethical issues in business
B the many stakeholders and their incompatible interests
C the many factors we have to consider
D the similarity between legal and moral responsibility
Question #37
A individual corporations can differ greatly in their goals and what they believe is appropriate behavior
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 a mission statement shows that a company may not be purely egoistic
Question #38
A we tend to be more cooperative if we have to deal with the same people over and over
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 a life worth living comes from cooperative endeavors
Question #39
A it is safer to be feared than to be loved
B right and wrong matter more than praise or blame
C a bold leader should acquire and use power for his personal advantage
D a leader has to promote his own interests above all others
Question #40
A objectivists
B absolutists
C coherentists
D those who believe moral truths apply throughout space and time
Question #41
A demonstrates that most of our business dealings are based on mistrust
B leads to a litigious society
C advocated by economist Milton Friedman
D breeds the belief that the other business party is predatory
Question #42
A benign self-interest
B instrumental morality
C intrinsic morality
D prudence
Question #43
A having a baseline of moral decency consistent throughout our lives
B role morality
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 #44
A normative ethics
B metaethics
C utilitarianism
D virtue ethics
Question #45
A it helps us understand the nature of business and make moral judgments
B it helps us examine the arguments businesses use for their actions
C it helps us make quick moral business decisions
D it helps us examine the fundamental assumptions and conceptual foundations of business