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Midterm 2 (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  Work in pairs or groups to study and review material
C  Attend class or watch video lectures and take notes by hand
D  Taking good notes and relying on the lecture material makes buying the book unnecessary
Question #2
A  Highlight “breadcrumbs” left by the author, like “There are three reasons…First…Second…Third”
B  The more you highlight the better
C  Highlighting key terms, questions, and key names is a way to preview material before you read the chapter.
D  Highlight different elements, i.e. key terms, key names, and questions in different colors
Question #3
A  Flashcards
B  Highlighting
C  Outlining
D  Coffee
Question #4
A  Page through the material looking at the section headings, bold print, and italicized words
B  If you are reading a novel read the first line of every paragraph
C  Skimming the material starting from the back of the chapter
D  Look at charts, graphs, or pictures in the chapter
Question #5
A  Re-reading the material until you remember the key concepts
B  Previewing the material
C  Paraphrasing the reading material as you go
D  Writing down questions you want the reading material to answer
Question #6
A  Regulating
B  Goal-setting
C  Monitoring
D  Self-assessing
Question #7
A  Bloom’s taxonomy is a way to help us understand our level of learning
B  Creating, evaluating, and analyzing are at the bottom of the Bloom pyramid
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  women who are no longer engaged in subsistence farming must seek seasonal employment
B  women have less access to capital
C  fewer women have entered the workplace as a result of globalization
D  employers perceive women as more compliant
Question #9
A  she settled her case four years later for $12 million
B  300 women filed similar complaints against Morgan Stanley
C  in 1996 she filed a sexual discrimination complaint against Morgan Stanley with the Equal Employment Opportunities Commission
D  these kinds of cases are exceedingly rare today
Question #10
A  differences in form of address
B  discrimination blindness
C  the reluctance of women to charge in cases of sexual harassment
D  workplace dangers
Question #11
A  the “glass ceiling”
B  ”dual burdens”
C  the “mommy track”
D  the “glass cliff”
Question #12
A  advocated by Mary Woolstonecraft
B  suggests society and the workplace need to take more seriously the perspectives and experiences of women
C  suggests society and the workplace have systematically devalued women’s experience
D  accepts the notion of gender based dichotomies
Question #13
A  it goes against the traditional male view of classical philosophy
B  it embraces the idea of interdependent relationships
C  leads to decisions based upon “rationality tinged with humane concern”
D  there is no apparent independent criterion of right and wrong
Question #14
A  essentialism
B  gender egalitarianism
C  traditional conceptual dichotomies
D  traditional gender stereotypes
Question #15
A  men and women are “hard wired” to have differences
B  the differences between men and women are the result of “socialization”
C  the differences are based on age not gender
D  the differences between men and women are “illusory”
Question #16
A  equal pay for equal work
B  women are systematically disadvantaged
C  removing barriers to education
D  equal opportunity in hiring and promotion
Question #17
A  women earn only 75% of men’s wages
B  the rejection by many women of the role of being only mothers and homemakers
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 undermined public faith in the energy industry, government regulators and our own capability to respond to this kind of crisis
C  it can be traced to identifiable mistakes made by British Petroleum (BP), Halliburton, and Transocean
D  it could have been prevented
Question #19
A  was the result of failures in corporate governance
B  the financial crisis was unavoidable
C  was the result of a systematic breakdown in accountability and ethics
D  was the result of a combination of excessive borrowing, risky investments and a lack of transparency
Question #20
A  employed thousands
B  ecologically friendly cosmetics
C  low employee wages
D  expanded internationally with willing customers and competitive prices
Question #21
A  it is an unelected and undemocratic transnational authority
B  it reflects the power and influence of its richer and more powerful nations
C  their hearings are closed to the public
D  nations do not have to abide by its rulings
Question #22
A  makes business more efficient and leads to greater worldwide prosperity
B  borders are open for trade but closed to immigrants who want jobs
C  the race to the bottom
D  industrial pollution “blows away” into other nations
Question #23
A  is protectionistic of national economies
B  is a liberal (libertarian) market approach
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 is encouraged by free market advocates like Ayn Rand and Robert Nozick
C  it operates by means of regulations, taxation, and government spending
D  it is used to protect personal rights in the work place
Question #25
A  Mylan Pharmaceutical’s unjustified inflation of Epi-Pen pricing
B  Destruction of Gulf of Mexico resources by BP’s Deep Water Gulf Oil Disaster
C  Russia making territorial claims on the Arctic
D  Ammon Bundy’s group occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge
Question #26
A  producing sweatshop apparel where the costs for healthcare, unemployment and safety are borne by the employees and not the manufacturer
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  CocaCola, PepsiCo, and Cadbury-Schweppes control of 90% of the US soft drink market
Question #27
A  consumer reaction to moral issues is combined with other factors
B  implies that business has a duty to provide moral goods and services to customers
C  consumers vote with their wallets
D  businesses are a conduit for consumers’ demands
Question #28
A  goods with built in obsolescence
B  landfills and depleting resources
C  the invisible hand
D  shortages and pollution for future generations
Question #29
A  are run by executives who face a challenging ethical environment
B  are a result of the industrial revolution
C  have no obligations to the society
D  have considerable social and economic power to shape public opinion and legislative policy
Question #30
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 #31
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 #32
A  capitalism makes a good servant to human flourishing, but a poor master
B  capitalism sometimes needs to be monitored and corrected
C  capitalism left unchecked may lead to excessive, unreasonable, and/or harmful acts
D  Adam Smith advocated making merchants and manufacturers “rulers of mankind”
Question #33
A  requires role models
B  recognizes that actions take place within communities and must be judged in those terms
C  does not lend itself well to corporate statements and management literature
D  evaluates actions as part of a continuing personal history
Question #34
A  intellectual virtues make someone clever but not necessarily good
B  virtues moderate or balance our feelings
C  virtues are not just learned in the classroom
D  virtues are the same in any particular context
Question #35
A  a teleological system
B  concerned with duty to do what is right
C  the aim is eudaimonia
D  learned from role models
Question #36
A  Kantian capitalism
B  Edward Freeman’s view of “stakeholder theory”
C  Norman Bowie’s views of what is meaningful work
D  the traditional view of capitalism
Question #37
A  moral action is imperative because we have no alternative to do otherwise
B  moral laws apply categorically in all circumstances
C  moral actions are based upon our feelings
D  maxims can be tested by whether or not they are consistent
Question #38
A  the morality of an act is determined by the amount of good or evil it produces
B  ethics is based on our ability to reason and our freedom of choice
C  motives are of utmost importance in assessing morality
D  determining moral action does not rely on outside evidence
Question #39
A  it may pose a threat to minority groups
B  the problem of how to calculate future welfare
C  utility is not always fair
D  supererogation
Question #40
A  supererogation
B  ”sour grapes” syndrome
C  the problem of how to calculate future welfare
D  partiality
Question #41
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 #42
A  a more outwardly directed mission statement recognizes the conflict between making a profit and meeting the needs of other stakeholders
B  corporations are required to have a published mission statement
C  a mission statement shows that a company may not be purely egoistic
D  individual corporations can differ greatly in their goals and what they believe is appropriate behavior
Question #43
A  right and wrong matter more than praise or blame
B  it is safer to be feared than to be loved
C  a leader has to promote his own interests above all others
D  a bold leader should acquire and use power for his personal advantage
Question #44
A  absolutists
B  coherentists
C  those who believe moral truths apply throughout space and time
D  objectivists
Question #45
A  demonstrates that most of our business dealings are based on mistrust
B  breeds the belief that the other business party is predatory
C  leads to a litigious society
D  advocated by economist Milton Friedman
Question #46
A  benign self-interest
B  instrumental morality
C  intrinsic morality
D  prudence
Question #47
A  having a single set of ethical standards that apply throughout our life
B  role morality
C  making no distinction between different roles in our lives and what is moral behavior
D  having a baseline of moral decency consistent throughout our lives
Question #48
A  utilitarianism
B  virtue ethics
C  metaethics
D  normative ethics
Question #49
A  it helps us examine the arguments businesses use for their actions
B  it helps us examine the fundamental assumptions and conceptual foundations of business
C  it helps us understand the nature of business and make moral judgments
D  it helps us make quick moral business decisions