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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  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 #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