,Part One: Chapter One: The Nature of Morality
Multiple Choice (24)
1. Ethics addresses the question of
a. whether God exists
b. what we know
c. how we should live
d. what we are
2. Ethics does not investigate questions of
a. duty and obligation
b. mind and body
c. fairness and unfairness
d. good and bad
3. Business ethics is the study of what constitutes good and bad human conduct in a
a. business setting
b. academic setting
c. heavenly setting
d. utopian setting
4. Who discussed whether a merchant should tell people more goods similar to his are on their
way?
a. Plato
b. Seneca
c. Aristotle
d. Cicero
5. Business ethics dates to
a. The Modern period
b. The Renaissance
c. Ancient times
d. The Industrial Revolution
6. “Business” and “businessperson” are
a. technical terms
b. narrow terms
c. broad terms
d. colloquial terms
7. The objective of businesses is to provide goods or services for
a. profit
b. sale
c. free
d. rent
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,8. A group of persons working together for a common purpose is
a. a club
b. a business
c. a committee
d. an organization
9. Moral standards concern behavior that is
a. of serious consequence to human welfare
b. subject to legal assessment
c. performed only by businesses
d. of trivial importance
10. Whether you should copy a pirated DVD on your office computer is a
a. technical question
b. factual question
c. moral question
d. business question
11. What term generally refers to any special code of social behavior?
a. morality
b. business
c. etiquette
d. deontology
12. Rules of etiquette are generally
a. old-fashioned
b. nonmoral
c. judgmental
d. utilitarian
13. Laws enacted by legislative bodies are called
a. torts
b. statutes
c. common law
d. liabilities
14. Common law is
a. judge-made law
b. legislative law
c. arbitrary law
d. statute law
15. Who did Martin Luther King Jr. address his “Letter from Birmingham Jail” to?
a. the courts
b. fellow clergy
c. fellow protestors
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, d. fellow convicts
16. Professional codes of ethics lie somewhere between
a. etiquette and law
b. right and wrong
c. law and morality
d. facts and values
17. For philosophers, the important question is
a. where our moral principles come from
b. whether our moral principles can be justified
c. where our moral principles are going
d. whether our moral principles are legal
18. Any religion provides its believers with a
a. worldview
b. church
c. established clergy
d. God
19. The Golden Rule represents
a. one of humankind’s lowest moral requirements
b. a rule applicable to all sentient beings
c. one of humankind’s highest moral ideals
d. a rule that is self-contradictory
20. The idea that morality must be based n religion can be interpreted in
a. two ways
b. three ways
c. four ways
d. five ways
21. The moral instructions of the world’s great religions are
a. general and imprecise
b. precise and specific
c. inapplicable to modern life
d. only applicable to believers
22. The view that what is right is determined by what a culture says is right is
a. deontology
b. utilitarianism
c. virtue ethics
d. ethical relativism
23. Carr defends a form of
a. virtue ethics
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Multiple Choice (24)
1. Ethics addresses the question of
a. whether God exists
b. what we know
c. how we should live
d. what we are
2. Ethics does not investigate questions of
a. duty and obligation
b. mind and body
c. fairness and unfairness
d. good and bad
3. Business ethics is the study of what constitutes good and bad human conduct in a
a. business setting
b. academic setting
c. heavenly setting
d. utopian setting
4. Who discussed whether a merchant should tell people more goods similar to his are on their
way?
a. Plato
b. Seneca
c. Aristotle
d. Cicero
5. Business ethics dates to
a. The Modern period
b. The Renaissance
c. Ancient times
d. The Industrial Revolution
6. “Business” and “businessperson” are
a. technical terms
b. narrow terms
c. broad terms
d. colloquial terms
7. The objective of businesses is to provide goods or services for
a. profit
b. sale
c. free
d. rent
1
,8. A group of persons working together for a common purpose is
a. a club
b. a business
c. a committee
d. an organization
9. Moral standards concern behavior that is
a. of serious consequence to human welfare
b. subject to legal assessment
c. performed only by businesses
d. of trivial importance
10. Whether you should copy a pirated DVD on your office computer is a
a. technical question
b. factual question
c. moral question
d. business question
11. What term generally refers to any special code of social behavior?
a. morality
b. business
c. etiquette
d. deontology
12. Rules of etiquette are generally
a. old-fashioned
b. nonmoral
c. judgmental
d. utilitarian
13. Laws enacted by legislative bodies are called
a. torts
b. statutes
c. common law
d. liabilities
14. Common law is
a. judge-made law
b. legislative law
c. arbitrary law
d. statute law
15. Who did Martin Luther King Jr. address his “Letter from Birmingham Jail” to?
a. the courts
b. fellow clergy
c. fellow protestors
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, d. fellow convicts
16. Professional codes of ethics lie somewhere between
a. etiquette and law
b. right and wrong
c. law and morality
d. facts and values
17. For philosophers, the important question is
a. where our moral principles come from
b. whether our moral principles can be justified
c. where our moral principles are going
d. whether our moral principles are legal
18. Any religion provides its believers with a
a. worldview
b. church
c. established clergy
d. God
19. The Golden Rule represents
a. one of humankind’s lowest moral requirements
b. a rule applicable to all sentient beings
c. one of humankind’s highest moral ideals
d. a rule that is self-contradictory
20. The idea that morality must be based n religion can be interpreted in
a. two ways
b. three ways
c. four ways
d. five ways
21. The moral instructions of the world’s great religions are
a. general and imprecise
b. precise and specific
c. inapplicable to modern life
d. only applicable to believers
22. The view that what is right is determined by what a culture says is right is
a. deontology
b. utilitarianism
c. virtue ethics
d. ethical relativism
23. Carr defends a form of
a. virtue ethics
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