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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 Highlighting key terms, questions, and key names is a way to preview material before you read the chapter.
B Highlight “breadcrumbs” left by the author, like “There are three reasons…First…Second…Third”
C The more you highlight the better
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 Skimming the material starting from the back of the chapter
C Look at charts, graphs, or pictures in 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 Writing down questions you want the reading material to answer
D Re-reading the material until you remember the key concepts
Question #6
A Goal-setting
B Monitoring
C Self-assessing
D Regulating
Question #7
A Bloom’s taxonomy may be used to help us diagnose our level of learning
B Bloom’s taxonomy is a way to help us understand our level of learning
C Creating, evaluating, and analyzing are at the bottom of the Bloom pyramid
D Bloom’s taxonomy is a hierarchy of learning levels
Question #8
A women who are no longer engaged in subsistence farming must seek seasonal employment
B women have less access to capital
C employers perceive women as more compliant
D fewer women have entered the workplace as a result of globalization
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 the reluctance of women to charge in cases of sexual harassment
C workplace dangers
D discrimination blindness
Question #11
A the “mommy track”
B ”dual burdens”
C the “glass ceiling”
D the “glass cliff”
Question #12
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 #13
A leads to decisions based upon “rationality tinged with humane concern”
B it goes against the traditional male view of classical philosophy
C there is no apparent independent criterion of right and wrong
D it embraces the idea of interdependent relationships
Question #14
A traditional gender stereotypes
B traditional conceptual dichotomies
C essentialism
D gender egalitarianism
Question #15
A the differences between men and women are “illusory”
B the differences between men and women are the result of “socialization”
C men and women are “hard wired” to have differences
D the differences are based on age not gender
Question #16
A removing barriers to education
B equal pay for equal work
C equal opportunity in hiring and promotion
D women are systematically disadvantaged
Question #17
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 #18
A it can be traced to identifiable mistakes made by British Petroleum (BP), Halliburton, and Transocean
B it could have been prevented
C it undermined public faith in the energy industry, government regulators and our own capability to respond to this kind of crisis
D to be allowed to drill on the outer continental shelf is a private right to be exercised
Question #19
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 was the result of failures in corporate governance
D the financial crisis was unavoidable
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 nations do not have to abide by its rulings
B it reflects the power and influence of its richer and more powerful nations
C their hearings are closed to the public
D it is an unelected and undemocratic transnational authority
Question #22
A borders are open for trade but closed to immigrants who want jobs
B makes business more efficient and leads to greater worldwide prosperity
C the race to the bottom
D industrial pollution “blows away” into other nations
Question #23
A believes boosting fair competition will result in greater worldwide prosperity
B is a liberal (libertarian) market approach
C has accelerated since 1995 with the formation of the World Trade Organization (WTO)
D is protectionistic of national economies
Question #24
A it is used to protect personal rights in the work place
B it is used to mitigate business cycles
C it operates by means of regulations, taxation, and government spending
D it is encouraged by free market advocates like Ayn Rand and Robert Nozick
Question #25
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 Mylan Pharmaceutical’s unjustified inflation of Epi-Pen pricing
D Russia making territorial claims on the Arctic
Question #26
A failing to fix a car’s oil leak choosing instead to transfer the cost of the environmental burden to the community
B producing sweatshop apparel where the costs for healthcare, unemployment and safety are borne by the employees and not the manufacturer
C people living near a coal-fired power plant who must clean the power plant’s soot off their laundry
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 businesses are a conduit for consumers’ demands
D consumers vote with their wallets
Question #28
A the invisible hand
B landfills and depleting resources
C shortages and pollution for future generations
D goods with built in obsolescence
Question #29
A are a result of the industrial revolution
B are run by executives who face a challenging ethical environment
C have considerable social and economic power to shape public opinion and legislative policy
D have no obligations to the society
Question #30
A has a profound influence over our everyday lives
B has resulted in a high standard of living with affordable goods and services
C functions without government influence or modification
D encourages consumption of finite resources
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 the basis “normative action” based upon outcomes, duties, and virtues
D ethical theory provides an analytical framework for making decisions about what we should do
Question #32
A Adam Smith advocated making merchants and manufacturers “rulers of mankind”
B capitalism sometimes needs to be monitored and corrected
C capitalism makes a good servant to human flourishing, but a poor master
D capitalism left unchecked may lead to excessive, unreasonable, and/or harmful acts
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 virtues moderate or balance our feelings
B virtues are the same in any particular context
C virtues are not just learned in the classroom
D intellectual virtues make someone clever but not necessarily good
Question #35
A concerned with duty to do what is right
B a teleological system
C learned from role models
D the aim is eudaimonia
Question #36
A Edward Freeman’s view of “stakeholder theory”
B Kantian capitalism
C the traditional view of capitalism
D Norman Bowie’s views of what is meaningful work
Question #37
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 #38
A motives are of utmost importance in assessing morality
B ethics is based on our ability to reason and our freedom of choice
C the morality of an act is determined by the amount of good or evil it produces
D determining moral action does not rely on outside evidence
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 the problem of how to calculate future welfare
B supererogation
C ”sour grapes” syndrome
D partiality
Question #41
A the many factors we have to consider
B the difficulty in analyzing ethical issues in business
C the many stakeholders and their incompatible interests
D the similarity between legal and moral responsibility
Question #42
A individual corporations can differ greatly in their goals and what they believe is appropriate behavior
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 corporations are required to have a published mission statement
Question #43
A it is safer to be feared than to be loved
B a bold leader should acquire and use power for his personal advantage
C right and wrong matter more than praise or blame
D a leader has to promote his own interests above all others
Question #44
A objectivists
B coherentists
C absolutists
D those who believe moral truths apply throughout space and time
Question #45
A breeds the belief that the other business party is predatory
B leads to a litigious society
C advocated by economist Milton Friedman
D demonstrates that most of our business dealings are based on mistrust
Question #46
A instrumental morality
B intrinsic morality
C benign self-interest
D prudence
Question #47
A having a single set of ethical standards that apply throughout our life
B having a baseline of moral decency consistent throughout our lives
C role morality
D making no distinction between different roles in our lives and what is moral behavior
Question #48
A normative ethics
B utilitarianism
C metaethics
D virtue ethics
Question #49
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 examine the fundamental assumptions and conceptual foundations of business
D it helps us make quick moral business decisions