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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 Attend class or watch video lectures and take notes by hand
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 Coffee
B Flashcards
C Outlining
D Highlighting
Question #3
A If you are reading a novel read the first line of every paragraph
B Page through the material looking at the section headings, bold print, and italicized words
C Look at charts, graphs, or pictures in the chapter
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 Re-reading the material until you remember the key concepts
D Writing down questions you want the reading material to answer
Question #5
A Self-assessing
B Regulating
C Monitoring
D Goal-setting
Question #6
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 may be used to help us diagnose our level of learning
D Bloom’s taxonomy is a hierarchy of learning levels
Question #7
A 300 women filed similar complaints against Morgan Stanley
B these kinds of cases are exceedingly rare today
C she settled her case four years later for $12 million
D in 1996 she filed a sexual discrimination complaint against Morgan Stanley with the Equal Employment Opportunities Commission
Question #8
A differences in form of address
B workplace dangers
C discrimination blindness
D the reluctance of women to charge in cases of sexual harassment
Question #9
A ”dual burdens”
B the “glass ceiling”
C the “glass cliff”
D the “mommy track”
Question #10
A advocated by Mary Woolstonecraft
B suggests society and the workplace have systematically devalued women’s experience
C accepts the notion of gender based dichotomies
D suggests society and the workplace need to take more seriously the perspectives and experiences of women
Question #11
A there is no apparent independent criterion of right and wrong
B it embraces the idea of interdependent relationships
C it goes against the traditional male view of classical philosophy
D leads to decisions based upon “rationality tinged with humane concern”
Question #12
A the rejection by many women of the role of being only mothers and homemakers
B 6 million women joining the workforce during World War II
C the post-war economy proving greater employment opportunities for women
D women earn only 75% of men’s wages
Question #13
A it could have been prevented
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 to be allowed to drill on the outer continental shelf is a private right to be exercised
Question #14
A was the result of a systematic breakdown in accountability and ethics
B was the result of a combination of excessive borrowing, risky investments and a lack of transparency
C the financial crisis was unavoidable
D was the result of failures in corporate governance
Question #15
A expanded internationally with willing customers and competitive prices
B ecologically friendly cosmetics
C low employee wages
D employed thousands
Question #16
A it is an unelected and undemocratic transnational authority
B their hearings are closed to the public
C it reflects the power and influence of its richer and more powerful nations
D nations do not have to abide by its rulings
Question #17
A the race to the bottom
B borders are open for trade but closed to immigrants who want jobs
C makes business more efficient and leads to greater worldwide prosperity
D industrial pollution “blows away” into other nations
Question #18
A believes boosting fair competition will result in greater worldwide prosperity
B is a liberal (libertarian) market approach
C is protectionistic of national economies
D has accelerated since 1995 with the formation of the World Trade Organization (WTO)
Question #19
A it is used to protect personal rights in the work place
B it is used to mitigate business cycles
C it is encouraged by free market advocates like Ayn Rand and Robert Nozick
D it operates by means of regulations, taxation, and government spending
Question #20
A Ammon Bundy’s group occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge
B Destruction of Gulf of Mexico resources by BP’s Deep Water Gulf Oil Disaster
C Russia making territorial claims on the Arctic
D Mylan Pharmaceutical’s unjustified inflation of Epi-Pen pricing
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 CocaCola, PepsiCo, and Cadbury-Schweppes control of 90% of the US soft drink market
C people living near a coal-fired power plant who must clean the power plant’s soot off their laundry
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 shortages and pollution for future generations
C the invisible hand
D goods with built in obsolescence
Question #23
A have no obligations to the society
B have considerable social and economic power to shape public opinion and legislative policy
C are a result of the industrial revolution
D are run by executives who face a challenging ethical environment
Question #24
A functions without government influence or modification
B has a profound influence over our everyday lives
C encourages consumption of finite resources
D has resulted in a high standard of living with affordable goods and services
Question #25
A ethical theory provides the basis “normative action” based upon outcomes, duties, and virtues
B ethical theory will provide an easy recipe for right action in every case
C ethical theory is implemented within a wider context
D ethical theory provides an analytical framework for making decisions about what we should do
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 makes a good servant to human flourishing, but a poor master
D capitalism sometimes needs to be monitored and corrected
Question #27
A recognizes that actions take place within communities and must be judged in those terms
B requires role models
C evaluates actions as part of a continuing personal history
D does not lend itself well to corporate statements and management literature
Question #28
A virtues are not just learned in the classroom
B virtues moderate or balance our feelings
C intellectual virtues make someone clever but not necessarily good
D virtues are the same in any particular context
Question #29
A concerned with duty to do what is right
B the aim is eudaimonia
C a teleological system
D learned from role models
Question #30
A W.D. Ross
B Immanuel Kant
C Norman Bowie
D Edward Freeman
Question #31
A the traditional view of capitalism
B Kantian capitalism
C Edward Freeman’s view of “stakeholder theory”
D Norman Bowie’s views of what is meaningful work
Question #32
A moral laws apply categorically in all circumstances
B moral action is imperative because we have no alternative to do otherwise
C maxims can be tested by whether or not they are consistent
D moral actions are based upon our feelings
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 motives are of utmost importance in assessing morality
D ethics is based on our ability to reason and our freedom of choice
Question #34
A it may pose a threat to minority groups
B utility is not always fair
C supererogation
D the problem of how to calculate future welfare
Question #35
A the problem of how to calculate future welfare
B partiality
C supererogation
D ”sour grapes” syndrome
Question #36
A the many factors we have to consider
B the similarity between legal and moral responsibility
C the many stakeholders and their incompatible interests
D the difficulty in analyzing ethical issues in business
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 good and evil are names that signify our appetites and aversions
B it is always in our best interest to compete and dominate
C a life worth living comes from cooperative endeavors
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 coherentists
B absolutists
C those who believe moral truths apply throughout space and time
D objectivists
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 prudence
B instrumental morality
C intrinsic morality
D benign self-interest
Question #43
A having a single set of ethical standards that apply throughout our life
B making no distinction between different roles in our lives and what is moral behavior
C role morality
D having a baseline of moral decency consistent throughout our lives
Question #44
A metaethics
B normative ethics
C virtue ethics
D utilitarianism
Question #45
A it helps us understand the nature of business and make moral judgments
B it helps us examine the fundamental assumptions and conceptual foundations of business
C it helps us examine the arguments businesses use for their actions
D it helps us make quick moral business decisions