Which of the models of capitalism and government comes under the critique of the
Marxist critics?
A. Government only preserves the peace and adjudicates disputes among those engaged
in business.
B. Government is the protector of capitalists at the expense of the other members of
society.
C. Government should help business by imposing quotas, import taxes, and other means
to make foreign interests less competitive.
D. Government and business cooperate for the sake of both business and society as a
whole.
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Which of the following is NOT captured by the notion of autonomy?
A. Freedom
B. The external imposition of the law.
C. The self-imposition of the law.
D. The universal acceptability of the moral law.
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Which of the following is the argument offered against direct marketing in the form of
spam?
A. It is a waste and misuse of paper, adding to the depletion of forests and overtaxing
landfills.
B. It is an invasion of privacy.
C. It is time consuming and intrusive.
D. It is a significant inconvenience because of the considerable volume.
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Which of the following would be the conclusion a virtue ethicist might make of one
who reacts to strong temptation by frequently giving in to it?
A. The person has an excellent character.
B. The person has an immoral character.
C. The person has a strong character.
D. The person has a weak character.
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Which of the following is not a charge leveled against the World Trade Organization?
A. That LDCs are not benefited and are, in fact, harmed.
B. That all nations, regardless of size and wealth, are given equal voice.
C. That the organization is not democratic nor transparent in its practices.
D. That all of the nations are not, in fact, equal.
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Which of the following is an excusing condition that has to do having only one possible
action that I can perform?
A. lack of control
B. external coercion
C. the absence of alternatives
D. internal coercion
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Which of the following is the feeling of sorrow for our immoral actions, along with the
intention not to perform similar actions in the future?
A. Moral guilt
B. Moral shame
C. Moral remorse
D. Conscience
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The argument that slavery, in the ancient world, was a necessary step toward feudalism,
and thus a necessary step in the development of the modern world belongs to which
class of arguments?
A. Utilitarian
B. Deontological
C. Virtue
D. None of these
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According to Lawrence Kohlberg, what is the second level of moral development?
A. preconventional
B. conventional
C. autonomous
D. postconventional
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Which of the following is a formalistic ethical approach?
A. The moral law specifies precisely what the right actions must contain.
B. The moral law contains both formal elements and content for moral actions.
C. The moral law does not state what content an action must have to be a right action.
D. The moral law contains only the content of the action that is right.
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What is the first step in the assessment of safety?
A. Deciding how much safety is demanded with respect to a particular product or
activity.
B. Determining how much safety is attainable and how to attain it in a given endeavor.
C. Ascertaining whether a particular instance of a product or activity comes up to
standards of safety.
D. Lowering the level of risk until it is found, by the ordinary person, to be acceptable.
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Which of the following needs that the American government has sought to meet has to
do with economic booms and busts and the effects of those on the unemployed?
A. Development of a welfare safety net
B. Provision of common goods
C. Control of economic cycles
D. Correction of unfair tendencies and of market failures
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Which are the only two developed nations that allow direct-to-consumer advertising of
pharmaceutical drugs?
A. United States and Great Britain
B. United States and New Zealand
C. United States and Germany
D. United States and Canada
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Which of the following is an example of preventing pollution at its source?
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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According to UNICEF, what percent of child labor is involved in the production of
goods for export?
A. 5%
B. 25%
C. 50%
D. 75%
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Which of the following is a positive right of the “right to work”?
A. Each person has a claim against his society to have the opportunity to work.
B. Each person has the right to pursue work and should not be prevented by others from
doing so.
C. Work is important for the social dimension that it communicates.
D. The person has a right to develop and express himself through productive labor.
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Which of the following describes normative ethics?
A. It attempts to form into a related whole the various norms, rules, and values of a
society’s morality.
B. It compares and contrasts different ethical systems, codes, practices, and beliefs.
C. It studies the logic of moral reasoning.
D. It deals with the meanings of moral terms.
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When faced with the temptation to break a contract, we are always concerned with a
particular contract in a particular set of circumstances. To determine the morality of the
action, we should calculate the effects of breaking this particular contract. 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 is not a measure by which businesses in the United States are
determined to be small- or medium-sized?
A. Number of managers
B. Annual sales
C. Net profit
D. Value of total assets
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Who was the philosopher who condemned usury?
A. Thomas Aquinas
B. Reinhold Niebuhr
C. Adam Smith
D. Immanuel Kant
E. G. W. F. Hegel
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Which of the following is not covered by the doctrine of fair use?
A. Copying chapters of books
B. Copying computer programs
C. Copying television programs for later viewing
D. Copying newspaper articles for class
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Which of the following is true about the rights and obligations of employers in the
employment-at-will doctrine?
A. Employees are free to work for whomever they choose who offers them a job, but
they must give some reason for quitting when they choose to leave employment.
B. Employees are free to work for whomever they choose who offers them a job, and
they may quit whenever they wish, for any reason or even for no particular reason.
C. Employees must take the first job offered, but they may quit whenever they wish, for
any reason or even for no particular reason.
D. Employees are free to work for whomever they choose who offers them a job, but
they can only quit with the mutual agreement of the employer.
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Which of the following is a problem with strict liability?
A. Manufacturers are given greater incentive to make their products safer.
B. The company is in the best position to fix a defect in its product.
C. A company has a “deep pocket,” and so is best able to accept the cost of harm.
D. No company can foresee all of the misuses of its product.
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Which of the following describes descriptive ethics?
A. It deals with the meanings of moral terms.
B. It compares and contrasts different ethical systems, codes, practices, and beliefs.
C. It attempts to form into a related whole the various norms, rules, and values of a
society’s morality.
D. It studies the logic of moral reasoning.
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Which of the following would be the conclusion a virtue ethicist might make of one
who reacts to strong temptation by habitually resisting?
A. The person has a morally good character.
B. The person has a weak character.
C. The person has an immoral character.
D. The person has great moral luck.
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What, in the eyes of critics, has come to represent the epitome of globalization?
A. International Monetary Fund (IMF)
B. Multinational Corporations (MNC)
C. World Trade Organization (WTO)
D. Less Developed Countries (LDC)
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Which of the following was set up by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
A. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles
B. Code of Professional Ethics
C. Generally Accepted Auditing Standards
D. Public Company Accounting Oversight Board
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Which of the following was an employee complaint in the Enron case?
A. At the same time top executives were selling their stock, the same executives were
encouraging employees to buy the stock.
B. During the period of the stock’s collapse, Enron employees were encouraged to sell
their stocks.
C. While top executives were buying stock in the company, they were encouraging
employees to sell their stocks.
D. Top management was encouraging employees to hold their stocks because they felt
the stock would rebound.
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Antitrust legislation is an example of which of the following?
A. Control of economic cycles
B. Taxation
C. Correction of unfair tendencies and of market failures
D. Development of a welfare safety net
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Which of the following is not an instance of privileged communication?
A. patient-doctor confidentiality
B. teacher-student confidentiality
C. priest-penitent confidentiality
D. lawyer-client confidentiality
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Which of the elements of Marxist theory has to do with the notion that capitalism
divides people into antagonistic camps and sets one against another?
A. exploitation
B. prevents production
C. vested interests
D. alienation
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Until Ben Cohen retired as CEO of Ben & Jerry’s, the cap on executive pay was which
of the following?
A. Twenty times that of the average worker
B. Seven times that of the lowest paid worker
C. Fourteen times that of the average worker
D. Fifty times that of the lowest paid worker
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