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Bioethics Midterm/Final Questions with
Correct Answers | Updated (100% Correct
Answers)
True or False: The discipline of bioethics is the study of the
biological sciences and how biology provides answers to our
ultimate questions about the meaning of life. includes some study
of the biomedical/logical sciences. Answer: False
True or False: The discipline of bioethics includes environmental or
ecological ethics and the study of the good stewardship of Earth, of
agriculture and in fact, of the whole biosphere of living things.
Answer: True
True or False: Every time we choose the true good to do we
become freer, and we move toward perfection, becoming more fully
human and preparing for our ultimate end in perfect happiness.
Answer: True
True or False: The real motivation for our choices and actions is not
happiness but to do what we think will make us popular because
what is popular is always good. Answer: False
True or False: Bioethics helps us to determine if a certain biomedical
technology can be used ethically. Answer: True
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True or False: The standard for our ethical decisions is the dignity of
the human person. Answer: True
9. One question that we should ask ourselves when judging a
technology is: will the act of using the technology do justice or
injustice to the human person? Answer: True
True or False: The matter, tools or technology that were used in a
biomedical act are the intention of the act not the means, object or
behavior chosen to do the act. Answer: False
The end (object, means, behavior chosen, technology) intended of a
medical act is the action of using the biomedical technology.
Answer: False
True or False: Bioethics is a particular aspect of the science of ethics
which guides our judgment concerning the morality of human acts
in the use of biomedical technologies. Answer: True
True or False: Genital intercourse can bring about ovulation in
women. Answer: False
True or False: In this course we will use faith more than reason and
religion more than science. Answer: False
True or False: In ethics, when we judge an action, our resources
include reason (natural moral law, conscience, act of the intellect),
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experience (memories) and contemporary and historical experience
(teachings). Answer: True
Why do we know that human persons are acting in accord with
human nature when they live in personal loving communion with
other human persons? Answer: Human persons are designed to
freely choose to love.
Why must we realize that a genetically distinct member of the
human species, a unique individual human being, is a human
person? Answer: To do otherwise would be arbitrary, unreasonable
and unscientific.
True or False: When someone obeys the natural moral law in the
judgment of an action while considering personal experience and
the teaching of others, he is using his conscience, an act of his
intellect. Answer: True
True or False: Answer: We can use reason alone to reach the
following conclusions or judgments: God exists, human souls are
immaterial and immortal, and knowledge is immaterial.
True or False: An act is good, natural and in accord with our human
nature when it conforms to and is informed by right reason
(prudence). Answer: True
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True or False: Human persons act correctly and in accord with
human nature when they choose to live in personal loving
communion with other human persons because love, a freely willed
choice, is the correct response to every human person. Answer:
True
True or False: A genetically distinct member of the human species, a
unique individual embryonic human being, might not be a human
person if he or she has not developed into a fetus or reached
personhood. Answer: False
True or False: Menstruation is the most important event in a
woman's menstrual (reproductive) cycle. Answer: False
What is the correct sequence in the menstrual cycle: Answer: GnRH,
FSH, Estrogen, LH, Progesterone
Luteinizing hormone is responsible for Answer: Causing ovulation
Creighton Method/NFP Answer: These are methods or programs
used by spouses to achieve or to avoid pregnancy, based on
observations of naturally occurring signs of fertile and infertile
phases of the menstrual cycle.
NaPro Technology Answer: Spouses use this therapeutic program to
heal infertility and to restore fertility health.
© 2025 All rights reserved
Bioethics Midterm/Final Questions with
Correct Answers | Updated (100% Correct
Answers)
True or False: The discipline of bioethics is the study of the
biological sciences and how biology provides answers to our
ultimate questions about the meaning of life. includes some study
of the biomedical/logical sciences. Answer: False
True or False: The discipline of bioethics includes environmental or
ecological ethics and the study of the good stewardship of Earth, of
agriculture and in fact, of the whole biosphere of living things.
Answer: True
True or False: Every time we choose the true good to do we
become freer, and we move toward perfection, becoming more fully
human and preparing for our ultimate end in perfect happiness.
Answer: True
True or False: The real motivation for our choices and actions is not
happiness but to do what we think will make us popular because
what is popular is always good. Answer: False
True or False: Bioethics helps us to determine if a certain biomedical
technology can be used ethically. Answer: True
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True or False: The standard for our ethical decisions is the dignity of
the human person. Answer: True
9. One question that we should ask ourselves when judging a
technology is: will the act of using the technology do justice or
injustice to the human person? Answer: True
True or False: The matter, tools or technology that were used in a
biomedical act are the intention of the act not the means, object or
behavior chosen to do the act. Answer: False
The end (object, means, behavior chosen, technology) intended of a
medical act is the action of using the biomedical technology.
Answer: False
True or False: Bioethics is a particular aspect of the science of ethics
which guides our judgment concerning the morality of human acts
in the use of biomedical technologies. Answer: True
True or False: Genital intercourse can bring about ovulation in
women. Answer: False
True or False: In this course we will use faith more than reason and
religion more than science. Answer: False
True or False: In ethics, when we judge an action, our resources
include reason (natural moral law, conscience, act of the intellect),
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experience (memories) and contemporary and historical experience
(teachings). Answer: True
Why do we know that human persons are acting in accord with
human nature when they live in personal loving communion with
other human persons? Answer: Human persons are designed to
freely choose to love.
Why must we realize that a genetically distinct member of the
human species, a unique individual human being, is a human
person? Answer: To do otherwise would be arbitrary, unreasonable
and unscientific.
True or False: When someone obeys the natural moral law in the
judgment of an action while considering personal experience and
the teaching of others, he is using his conscience, an act of his
intellect. Answer: True
True or False: Answer: We can use reason alone to reach the
following conclusions or judgments: God exists, human souls are
immaterial and immortal, and knowledge is immaterial.
True or False: An act is good, natural and in accord with our human
nature when it conforms to and is informed by right reason
(prudence). Answer: True
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True or False: Human persons act correctly and in accord with
human nature when they choose to live in personal loving
communion with other human persons because love, a freely willed
choice, is the correct response to every human person. Answer:
True
True or False: A genetically distinct member of the human species, a
unique individual embryonic human being, might not be a human
person if he or she has not developed into a fetus or reached
personhood. Answer: False
True or False: Menstruation is the most important event in a
woman's menstrual (reproductive) cycle. Answer: False
What is the correct sequence in the menstrual cycle: Answer: GnRH,
FSH, Estrogen, LH, Progesterone
Luteinizing hormone is responsible for Answer: Causing ovulation
Creighton Method/NFP Answer: These are methods or programs
used by spouses to achieve or to avoid pregnancy, based on
observations of naturally occurring signs of fertile and infertile
phases of the menstrual cycle.
NaPro Technology Answer: Spouses use this therapeutic program to
heal infertility and to restore fertility health.
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