Q#1: The three major types of ethical issues include except?
(A) Communication issues
(B) Systematic issues
(C) Corporate issues
(D) Individual issues
Answer: (A) Communication issues
Q#2: Which of the following refers to the reasoning process by which human behaviors, institutions, or policies are judged to be in accordance or not with moral standards?
(A) Moral reasoning
(B) Moral duty
(C) Moral justice
(D) None of the above
Answer: (A) Moral reasoning
Q#3: The principle of categorical imperative is given by:
(A) James Mill
(B) Herbert Spencer
(C) Jeremy Bentham
(D) Immanuel Kant
Answer: (D) Immanuel Kant
Q#4: Which kind of theory Utilitarianism has?
(A) Ethical
(B) Conceptual
(C) Behavioral
(D) None of the above
Answer: (A) Ethical
Q#5: In which year Justice Department charged the accounting firm of Arthur Andersen for obstruction of justice?
(A) 2000
(B) 2001
(C) 2002
(D) 2003
Answer: (C) 2002
Q#6: The main purpose of business ethics is to?
(A) Understanding ethical uncertainties
(B) Principles and concepts
(C) Application of practices
(D) All of the above
Answer: (D) All of the above
Q#7: The contributive principle of distributive justice measures contributions in terms of:
(A) Economic quality
(B) Minimum standard of living
(C) Work effort
(D) Opportunity
Answer: (C) Work effort
Q#8: An acquired disposition that is a valuable part of a morally good person, exhibited in habitual behavior is known as?
(A) Moral responsibility
(B) Moral ethics
(C) Moral virtue
(D) None of the above
Answer: (C) Moral virtue
Q#9: Which one of the following is not considered as category of issues involving justice?
(A) Distributive justice
(B) Retributive justice
(C) Compulsory justice
(D) Compensatory justice
Answer: (C) Compulsory justice
Q#10: Utilitarianism suggests that it is ethical to make decisions based on:
(A) Moral virtues
(B) Common decency
(C) What is best for most people
(D) None of the given
Answer: (C) What is best for most people
Q#11: Which one of the following is the right order for three stages of moral development?
(A) Principled morality, conventional morality and selfish
(B) Conventional morality, principled morality and selfish
(C) Selfish, conventional morality and principled morality
(D) None of the above
Answer: (C) Selfish, conventional morality and principled morality
Q#12: Which of the following choices does NOT describe a situation covered by the concept of rights?
(A) The absence of prohibitions against an activity
(B) The authorization to do something to secure one’s interests
(C) The necessity of doing something required by authority
(D) The existence of prohibitions on others to enable individuals to pursue an activity
Answer: (C) The necessity of doing something required by authority
Q#13: Right action comes to be defined in terms of moral principles chosen because of their logical comprehensiveness, universality, and consistency is known as?
(A) Interpersonal Concordance Orientation
(B) Universal Ethical Principles Orientation
(C) Social Contract Orientation
(D) Law and Order Orientation
Answer: (B) Universal Ethical Principles Orientation
Q#14: “Principle of Utility” as a method was the idea of:
(A) James Mill
(B) Herbert Spencer
(C) Jeremy Bentham
(D) Kant
Answer: (C) Jeremy Bentham
Q#15: Which one of the following is not a basic type of moral standards?
(A) Utilitarianism
(B) Rights
(C) Justice
(D) Relevant
Answer: (D) Relevant
Q#16: Which one of the following ethic sees concrete communities and communal relationships as having a fundamental value?
(A) The care ethic
(B) Demands of caring
(C) Communitarian ethic
(D) Socialism
Answer: (C) Communitarian ethic
Q#17: Which one of the following moral judgment approaches is used when deciding how benefits and burdens should be distributed among members of a group?
(A) Utility
(B) Rights
(C) Justice
(D) Caring
Answer: (C) Justice
Q#18: Socialist view on distribution is best described as:
(A) From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs
(B) The benefits a person receives should be proportional to his contribution
(C) From each they choose, to each as they are chosen
(D) Always treat humanity as an end in itself rather than as a means
Answer: (A) From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs
Q#19: Which one of the following is a type of moral standards?
(A) Utilitarianism
(B) Rights
(C) Justice
(D) All of the above
Answer: (D) All of the above
Q#20: The three major types of ethical issues include except?
(A) Communication issues
(B) Systematic issues
(C) Corporate issues
(D) Individual issues
Answer: (A) Communication issues
Q#21: The person’s reasons for acting must be reasons that he or she would be willing to have all others use, even as a basis of how they treat him or her is known as?
(A) Reversibility
(B) Universalizability
(C) Rule utilitarianism
(D) None of the above
Answer: (B) Universalizability
Q#22: Which statement reflects the “punishment and obedience orientation” stage (stage one) of moral development?
(A) I don’t steal because my friends don’t steal
(B) I don’t steal because I don’t want to be spanked
(C) I don’t steal because it would harm society as a whole
(D) I don’t steal because it wouldn’t be fair to everyone else
Answer: (B) I don’t steal because I don’t want to be spanked
Q#23: Justice based on needs and abilities is known as?
(A) Communism
(B) Capitalism
(C) Socialism
(D) None of the above
Answer: (A) Communism
Q#24: An acquired disposition that is a valuable part of a morally good person is known as?
(A) Moral responsibility
(B) Moral ethics
(C) Moral virtue
(D) None of the above
Answer: (C) Moral virtue
Q#25: Which one of the following justice refers to the just imposition of penalties and punishments?
(A) Distributive
(B) Retributive
(C) Compensatory
(D) Kantian
Answer: (B) Retributive
Q#26: In which of the following someone looks at individual acts to see whether they produce more pleasure, one looks only at moral rules at actions of a particular type?
(A) Rule utilitarianism
(B) Conventional utilitarianism
(C) Weighting cost and benefit
(D) None of the above
Answer: (A) Rule utilitarianism
Q#27: Circumstances that leave a person uncertain but not altogether unsure about what he or she is doing is a feature of:
(A) Excusing conditions
(B) Moral reasoning
(C) Mitigating factors
(D) Ignorance
Answer: (C) Mitigating factors