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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 Write your own test questions
C Work in pairs or groups to study and review material
D Taking good notes and relying on the lecture material makes buying the book unnecessary
Question #2
A Highlight different elements, i.e. key terms, key names, and questions in different colors
B Highlight “breadcrumbs” left by the author, like “There are three reasons…First…Second…Third”
C Highlighting key terms, questions, and key names is a way to preview material before you read the chapter.
D The more you highlight the better
Question #3
A Outlining
B Highlighting
C Flashcards
D Coffee
Question #4
A Page through the material looking at the section headings, bold print, and italicized words
B Look at charts, graphs, or pictures in the chapter
C Skimming the material starting from the back of the chapter
D If you are reading a novel read the first line of every paragraph
Question #5
A Previewing the material
B Paraphrasing the reading material as you go
C Re-reading the material until you remember the key concepts
D Writing down questions you want the reading material to answer
Question #6
A Goal-setting
B Monitoring
C Self-assessing
D Regulating
Question #7
A Creating, evaluating, and analyzing are at the bottom of the Bloom pyramid
B Bloom’s taxonomy is a way to help us understand our level of learning
C Bloom’s taxonomy is a hierarchy of learning levels
D Bloom’s taxonomy may be used to help us diagnose our level of learning
Question #8
A employers perceive women as more compliant
B women who are no longer engaged in subsistence farming must seek seasonal employment
C women have less access to capital
D fewer women have entered the workplace as a result of globalization
Question #9
A these kinds of cases are exceedingly rare today
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 she settled her case four years later for $12 million
Question #10
A workplace dangers
B the reluctance of women to charge in cases of sexual harassment
C discrimination blindness
D differences in form of address
Question #11
A ”dual burdens”
B the “mommy track”
C the “glass cliff”
D the “glass ceiling”
Question #12
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 advocated by Mary Woolstonecraft
D accepts the notion of gender based dichotomies
Question #13
A it embraces the idea of interdependent relationships
B leads to decisions based upon “rationality tinged with humane concern”
C there is no apparent independent criterion of right and wrong
D it goes against the traditional male view of classical philosophy
Question #14
A traditional conceptual dichotomies
B gender egalitarianism
C traditional gender stereotypes
D essentialism
Question #15
A the differences between men and women are “illusory”
B men and women are “hard wired” to have differences
C the differences between men and women are the result of “socialization”
D the differences are based on age not gender
Question #16
A removing barriers to education
B equal opportunity in hiring and promotion
C women are systematically disadvantaged
D equal pay for equal work
Question #17
A the rejection by many women of the role of being only mothers and homemakers
B women earn only 75% of men’s wages
C the post-war economy proving greater employment opportunities for women
D 6 million women joining the workforce during World War II
Question #18
A to be allowed to drill on the outer continental shelf is a private right to be exercised
B it could have been prevented
C it can be traced to identifiable mistakes made by British Petroleum (BP), Halliburton, and Transocean
D it undermined public faith in the energy industry, government regulators and our own capability to respond to this kind of crisis
Question #19
A was the result of a combination of excessive borrowing, risky investments and a lack of transparency
B was the result of a systematic breakdown in accountability and ethics
C was the result of failures in corporate governance
D the financial crisis was unavoidable
Question #20
A ecologically friendly cosmetics
B expanded internationally with willing customers and competitive prices
C low employee wages
D employed thousands
Question #21
A nations do not have to abide by its rulings
B their hearings are closed to the public
C it is an unelected and undemocratic transnational authority
D it reflects the power and influence of its richer and more powerful nations
Question #22
A borders are open for trade but closed to immigrants who want jobs
B the race to the bottom
C industrial pollution “blows away” into other nations
D makes business more efficient and leads to greater worldwide prosperity
Question #23
A is a liberal (libertarian) market approach
B is protectionistic of national economies
C has accelerated since 1995 with the formation of the World Trade Organization (WTO)
D believes boosting fair competition will result in greater worldwide prosperity
Question #24
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 #25
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 #26
A CocaCola, PepsiCo, and Cadbury-Schweppes control of 90% of the US soft drink market
B people living near a coal-fired power plant who must clean the power plant’s soot off their laundry
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 #27
A implies that business has a duty to provide moral goods and services to customers
B consumer reaction to moral issues is combined with other factors
C consumers vote with their wallets
D businesses are a conduit for consumers’ demands
Question #28
A landfills and depleting resources
B shortages and pollution for future generations
C the invisible hand
D goods with built in obsolescence
Question #29
A have considerable social and economic power to shape public opinion and legislative policy
B are a result of the industrial revolution
C are run by executives who face a challenging ethical environment
D have no obligations to the society
Question #30
A has resulted in a high standard of living with affordable goods and services
B has a profound influence over our everyday lives
C encourages consumption of finite resources
D functions without government influence or modification
Question #31
A ethical theory is implemented within a wider context
B ethical theory will provide an easy recipe for right action in every case
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 #32
A Adam Smith advocated making merchants and manufacturers “rulers of mankind”
B capitalism sometimes needs to be monitored and corrected
C capitalism left unchecked may lead to excessive, unreasonable, and/or harmful acts
D capitalism makes a good servant to human flourishing, but a poor master
Question #33
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 evaluates actions as part of a continuing personal history
D requires role models
Question #34
A virtues are not just learned in the classroom
B intellectual virtues make someone clever but not necessarily good
C virtues moderate or balance our feelings
D virtues are the same in any particular context
Question #35
A the aim is eudaimonia
B a teleological system
C concerned with duty to do what is right
D learned from role models
Question #36
A Kantian capitalism
B the traditional view of capitalism
C Norman Bowie’s views of what is meaningful work
D Edward Freeman’s view of “stakeholder theory”
Question #37
A moral action is imperative because we have no alternative to do otherwise
B moral laws apply categorically in all circumstances
C maxims can be tested by whether or not they are consistent
D moral actions are based upon our feelings
Question #38
A ethics is based on our ability to reason and our freedom of choice
B motives are of utmost importance in assessing morality
C determining moral action does not rely on outside evidence
D the morality of an act is determined by the amount of good or evil it produces
Question #39
A supererogation
B utility is not always fair
C it may pose a threat to minority groups
D the problem of how to calculate future welfare
Question #40
A supererogation
B partiality
C ”sour grapes” syndrome
D the problem of how to calculate future welfare
Question #41
A the difficulty in analyzing ethical issues in business
B the similarity between legal and moral responsibility
C the many stakeholders and their incompatible interests
D the many factors we have to consider
Question #42
A a mission statement shows that a company may not be purely egoistic
B corporations are required to have a published mission statement
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 #43
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 #44
A objectivists
B absolutists
C those who believe moral truths apply throughout space and time
D coherentists
Question #45
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 #46
A intrinsic morality
B prudence
C benign self-interest
D instrumental morality
Question #47
A having a baseline of moral decency consistent throughout our lives
B making no distinction between different roles in our lives and what is moral behavior
C having a single set of ethical standards that apply throughout our life
D role morality
Question #48
A virtue ethics
B metaethics
C utilitarianism
D normative ethics
Question #49
A it helps us examine the arguments businesses use for their actions
B it helps us understand the nature of business and make moral judgments
C it helps us make quick moral business decisions
D it helps us examine the fundamental assumptions and conceptual foundations of business