EXAM QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS|AGRADE
1. Christian health care ethics cannot ignore moral laws or norms, but
must be mainly an ends-means, love ethics. - CORRECT ANSWER
True
2. Autonomy is seeking the patient's benefit, helping people. -
CORRECT ANSWER False
3. Christian Health Care Ethics is based in both faith and reason. -
CORRECT ANSWER True
4. Embryos must be respected as a person only after implantation in
the uterus occurs. - CORRECT ANSWER False
5. The embryo is bodily and spiritually a human person. - CORRECT
ANSWER True
6. Embryos that are going to die anyway can be used for scientific
research. - CORRECT ANSWER False
7. The birth control pill can cause an abortion by not letting the sperm
fertilize the egg. - CORRECT ANSWER False
8. It is the right of every person to be born within marriage and from
marriage. - CORRECT ANSWER True
9. The unitive and procreative aspects of the marital act (sex within
marriage) can be separated for good reasons. - CORRECT ANSWER
False
10. Prior to the 1960s, artificial contraception was widely accepted
and practiced. - CORRECT ANSWER False
,11. A serious consequence of IVF is multiple pregnancies. - CORRECT
ANSWER True
12. Cyropreservation respects the dignity of the embryo. - CORRECT
ANSWER False
13. Pre-natal diagnosis is acceptable if it is being done for therapeutic
reasons. - CORRECT ANSWER True
14. Stem cells have the potential to become many different types of
cells. - CORRECT ANSWER True
15. Adult stem cells are found only in one or two places in the human
body. - CORRECT ANSWER False
16. Embryonic stem cells are usually taken from IVF cycles. -
CORRECT ANSWER True
17. Many cures have been obtained from research with embryonic
stem cells. - CORRECT ANSWER False
18. The Church is against stem cell research. - CORRECT ANSWER
False
19. Embryos must be destroyed in order for embryonic stem cells to be
obtained. - CORRECT ANSWER True
20. Embryonic stem cells are often rejected by the adult body. -
CORRECT ANSWER True
21. Embryonic stem cells often generate tumors in the adult body. -
CORRECT ANSWER True
22. Adult stem cells are part of the natural repair mechanisms of the
adult body and are therefore not rejected. - CORRECT ANSWER True
23. Somatic cell nuclear transfer can produce human tissues without
cloning an embryo. - CORRECT ANSWER False
,24. In the eyes of the Church, it is morally wrong to acquire cells (to be
cloned) from a human embryo, and in the process, kill the embryo. -
CORRECT ANSWER True
25. The Church supports the process of producing a human embryo by
fusion of a sperm and an ovum in a petri dish. - CORRECT ANSWER
False
26. The Church approves of the process of transferring the nucleus
into an enucleated human egg to create a human embryo. - CORRECT
ANSWER False
27. Human cloning would duplicate a person's features, but not the
person. - CORRECT ANSWER True
28. The parents generate the soul of their child. - CORRECT ANSWER
False
29. The Church opposes all types of human experimentation. -
CORRECT ANSWER False
30. Science and technology must be ordered towards helping, not
hurting, the human person. - CORRECT ANSWER True
31. Organ donation after death is encouraged as an act of generosity. -
CORRECT ANSWER True
32. Research on humans that violate the dignity of the human person
are acceptable if the subjects gives his or her consent. - CORRECT
ANSWER False
33. Catholics are the only group who believe that life begins at
conception. - CORRECT ANSWER False
34. Euthanasia & PAS are often motivated by false compassion. -
CORRECT ANSWER True
, 35. In Physician Assisted Suicide, the doctor directly kills the patient. -
CORRECT ANSWER False
36. Withdrawing extraordinary treatment is the same as euthanasia. -
CORRECT ANSWER False
37. Euthanasia proponents argue that an incompetent person's life is
no longer of any value and killing such a person is a benefit. -
CORRECT ANSWER True
38. In the United States of America, active euthanasia is considered
criminal homicide. - CORRECT ANSWER True
39. The Church sees freedom as the ability to do good, not to do
whatever we want. - CORRECT ANSWER True
40. According to the Church, life begins at conception. - CORRECT
ANSWER True
41. Personhood ends when consciousness ends. - CORRECT ANSWER
False
42. Letting someone die is morally permissible when one does not
intend to bring about the patient's death and when one does not
withhold some ordinary, obligatory treatment. - CORRECT ANSWER
True
43. Nutrients and hydration are considered to be ordinary treatment by
the Church. - CORRECT ANSWER True
44. Innocent life must be free from harm, but patients are not obliged
to pursue all treatments, even life-preserving treatments - CORRECT
ANSWER True
45. Terri Schiavo was being kept alive by extraordinary means. -
CORRECT ANSWER False