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Midterm 2

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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 #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