An analogy between the analysis of the moral justifiability of the American system and
of the international situation falters because of which of the following?
A. There is no developed international system.
B. There is no developed American system.
C. Other nations view America as distinct from the rest of the world.
D. America’s legacy of isolationism has isolated it from the rest of the world.
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Which of the following can be true or false and tends to obscure the issue and location
of truth?
A. facts
B. information
C. data
D. mistakes
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Which of the following conditions is necessary for whistle-blowing to be morally
obligatory?
A. The employee has exhausted the internal procedures and possibilities within the
firm, maybe even to the board of directors.
B. The employee has good reason to believe that by going public, the necessary changes
will be brought about.
C. The firm will do serious and considerable harm to employees or to the public.
D. The employee has reported the serious threat to his/her immediate supervisor.
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Which of the following is a Kantian argument against discrimination?
A. Since the least advantaged in a society would be better off in a nondiscriminatory
society than in one that discriminates, the rational person would see that
nondiscrimination is morally preferable.
B. People are treated as members of class with a certain characteristic, not as persons.
They are not ends in themselves, but because of that characteristic, they are denied
equal treatment and respect.
C. The dominant class has a desire to maintain its superiority and its class prerogatives.
D. Systematic discrimination produces a class of people who are arguably treated
unjustly. Other groups in the society will also have cause to worry about whether they
will be the next group to be discriminated against. On the whole, more harm than good
is done.
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Which of the following is not something that is championed by advocates of socialism?
A. free enterprise
B. equality
C. security
D. absence of exploitation
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Which of the following is not a way in which a company undercuts the competition
afforded by another unethically?
A. Pricing one’s product lower than one’s costs, thus making the competition operate at
a loss.
B. Buying up competitor companies to eliminate competition.
C. Targeting products in one area to subsidize losses in another, thus driving out the
competition.
D. By producing a better product and coming to dominate the field.
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Which of the following aspects of the quality of work life has to do with the virtues of
cooperation and support and with hierarchical or collegial organization of workers?
A. Conditions of Labor
B. The Attitude of the Worker toward Work
C. Organization of the Work Performed
D. Relations of the Workers among Themselves
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Which of the following is an example of a compensatory response to pollution.
A. Reimbursing those harmed for the harm done.
B. Disposing of the pollution in an appropriate way.
C. Not allowing the pollution to develop.
D. Properly creating a “paper trace” to track pollution.
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Which of the following is not a major supplier of arms?
A. Russia
B. United States
C. Germany
D. France
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Which of the following categories would air, water, minerals, land, and trees fall under?
A. Developed resources
B. Natural resources
C. Manufactured goods
D. Non-manufactured goods
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Which of the following is an example of tangible property?
A. Land, buildings, and additions on the land.
B. Money, stocks, bonds, financial securities.
C. Expressions of ideas, inventions, discoveries.
D. Some physical item that we can touch, though not usually land and buildings.
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In the 1980s, the prime rationale for takeovers was which of the following?
A. company valuation was accurate.
B. companies were overvalued.
C. company valuation was not a prime consideration.
D. companies were undervalued.
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Which of the following is an example of real property?
A. Land, buildings, and additions on the land.
B. Money, stocks, bonds, financial securities.
C. Expressions of ideas, inventions, discoveries.
D. Some physical item that we can touch, though not usually land and buildings.
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When faced with the temptation to break a contract, we should determine the morality
of the action, by evaluating the general consequences of breaking contracts in the past.
Which sort of utilitarianism is represented here?
A. rule-utilitarianism
B. deontological-utilitarianism
C. theological-utilitarianism
D. act-utilitarianism
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Which of the following non-Marxist moral critiques of American capitalism involves
the notion that capitalism creates waste?
A. The military-industrial complex
B. False needs and overproduction
C. Inequalities inherent in the system
D. Exploitation
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What does it mean for an action to be objectively right?
A. An action is objectively right if a person believes that the action is moral.
B. An action is objectively right if it promotes the greater good.
C. An action is objectively right if it advances one’s own self-interest.
D. An action is objectively right if it is in conformity with the moral law.
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Sound judgment involves all except which of the following?
A. a well-developed moral sense
B. experience
C. moral luck
D. careful deliberation
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Which of the following is generally described in terms of income?
A. Malnutrition
B. Health and Safety
C. Famine
D. Poverty
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Which of the following is not a human contribution to global warming?
A. deforestation
B. pollution of water
C. industrial use of fossil fuels
D. individual use of petroleum products
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For advocates of the free enterprise system, it works as it should, it does which of the
following?
A. Rewards all of those in society, regardless of their contributions.
B. Rewards only those who contribute to the economy, and only in proportion to their
contribution.
C. Rewards only those who contribute to the economy, and singles out for punishment,
those who don’t.
D. Rewards members of society randomly.
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If one person acts for another person, we can often say that the second person has what
sort of responsibility?
A. role responsibility
B. agent responsibility
C. paternal responsibility
D. fiduciary responsibility
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Which of the following excusing conditions has to do with a clinical abnormality?
A. lack of control
B. absence of alternatives
C. external coercion
D. internal compulsions
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Which of the following is the general obligation derived from the system of free
enterprise that restricts bribery?
A. the obligation to be fair in the transactions in which it engages
B. the obligation not to undermine the freedom and values of the system
C. the obligation to do no harm
D. the obligation to live up to the contracts into which one enters freely
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The view that suggests that while the resources of the world have been already divided
up, those resources by right belong to all people, however they were originally divided
up.
A. The Status Quo view
B. The Universal-Ownership view
C. The Right to Universal Access view
D. The Imperialistic view
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