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Appendix A for Unit One
Questions on the Features
N.B.: TYPE indicates that a question is new, modified, or unchanged, as follows.
N A question new to this edition of the Test Bank.
+ A question modified from the previous edition of the Test Bank.
= A question included in the previous edition of the Test Bank.
CHAPTER 3—INSIGHT INTO SOCIAL MEDIA:
TO TWEET OR NOT TO TWEET INSIDE THE COURTROOM
B1. Ginger and Holly are journalists in a courtroom hearing a case. The judge
instructs them not to use social media until the court is adjourned. Despite this
instruction, during the trial Ginger and Holly tweet play-by-play commentary for
the public as events unfold. Possible sanctions that the judge might impose
include
a. fines and imprisonment.
b. fines but not imprisonment.
c. imprisonment but not fines.
d. none of the choices.
CHAPTER 4—INSIGHT INTO E-COMMERCE:
DO COMPUTERS HAVE FREE SPEECH RIGHTS?
B2. FastBreak Inc. is dissatisfied with its ranking in Google Inc.’s search results.
FastBreak files a suit against Google, seeking an injunction. Google argues
that its search results are constitutionally protected speech. FastBreak’s best
argument against Google’s position is that
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a. the First Amendment protects humans against state censorship and
protecting a computer’s speech is not related to that purpose.
b. the trillions of decisions made by computers each day do not all
constitute protected speech.
c. computerized algorithms, which generate computer language, do not
constitute speech.
d. search results constitute commercial speech, for which the First
Amendment provides only limited protection.
CHAPTER 5—INSIGHT INTO THE GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT:
BRIBERY AND THE FOREIGN CORRUPT PRACTICES ACT
B3. Mexican employees of Farmacos Ltd., a subsidiary of Global Pharmaceuticals,
Inc., a U.S. firm, offer cash and gifts to regional Mexican government officials to
obtain their approval of favorable contracts. Steps that company managers
might take to end the practice and to influence other employees not to engage
in similar conduct include
a. termination of the employees who offered the bribes.
b. mandatory antibribery training for all employees.
c. audit of company expenses to expose illegal and unethical payments.
d. all of the choices.
UNIT ONE—FOCUS ON LEGAL ETHICS:
ETHICS AND THE LEGAL ENVIRONMENT OF BUSINESS
B4. Energy Resources Company develops its marketing strategies in terms of what
its management perceives as its ethical obligations, which represent its
a. legal liability.
b. profitability.
c. standards of right and wrong.
d. unilateral corporate duties.
APPENDIX A FOR UNIT ONE 3
B5. Commercial Wholesale, Inc., conducts its operations unethically, which, when
revealed, will likely affect its
a. good will only.
b. profits only.
c. reputation only.
d. good will, profits, and reputation.
