Practice Test Bank –
MCQS:
1) All public servants have the following characteristics except:
a) paid from public purse
b) special duties
c) power to use force
d) held to higher standard
ANSWER: C PAGE:: p) 4 -: LO 2
2) Which of the following is not one of the ethical principles that govern public servants identified by the
Josephson Institute?
a. accountability
b. democratic leadership
c. public service
d. incomplete judgment
ANSWER: D PAGE:: p)4 -: LO 2
3) Those exempt from legal and moral culpability include all of the following except:
a. the insane
b. the young
c. the poor
d. one whose actions were coerced
ANSWER: C PAGE:: p) 12 -: LO 4
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4) Which of the following is not one of Braswell’s reasons to study ethics?
a. develop critical thinking skills
b. become aware and open to ethical issues
c. develop wholesight
d. improve public image
ANSWER: D PAGE:: p) 6 -: LO 1 & 2
5) The term _______________ PAGE:ers to what is judged as good conduct)
a. values
b. morality
c. honor
d. goodness
ANSWER: B PAGE:: p) 6 -: LO 3
6) The discipline investigating the meaning of ethical systems and whether they are relative or are
universal is known as:
a. normative ethics
b. applied ethics
c. forensic ethics
d. meta-ethics
ANSWER: D PAGE:: p) 6 -: LO 3
7) __________________ ethics determine what people ought to do and defines moral duties based on
ethical systems or other means of analysis)
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a. Applied
b. Normative
c. Professional
d. Conventional
ANSWER: B PAGE:: p) 8 -: LO 3
8) The application of ethical principles to specific issues such as social research or medical practice is
called:
a. meta-ethics
b. normative ethics
c. applied ethics
d. practical ethics
ANSWER: C PAGE:: p) 8 -: LO 3
9) While duties are what you must do in order to be good, ______________ are commendable but not
required actions)
a. functions
b. superogatories
c. imperfect duties
d. obligations
ANSWER: B PAGE:: p) 9 -: LO 3
10) A good Samaritan who jumps into a river to save a drowning child, risking his or her own life to do so,
has performed a(n):
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a. professional duty
b. ethical duty
c. superogatory action
d. moral duty
ANSWER: C PAGE:: p) 9 -: LO 3
11) Superogatories have to do with:
a. duties
b. virtues
c. laws
d. meta-ethics
ANSWER: A PAGE:: p) 9 -: LO 3
12) Which of the following is not an example of an imperfect duty?
a. a duty to be honest
b. a duty to be generous
c. a duty to take your life
d. a duty to help the poor
ANSWER: C PAGE:: p) 9 -: LO 3
13) If honesty or physical fitness are important to you, these traits would be:
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MCQS:
1) All public servants have the following characteristics except:
a) paid from public purse
b) special duties
c) power to use force
d) held to higher standard
ANSWER: C PAGE:: p) 4 -: LO 2
2) Which of the following is not one of the ethical principles that govern public servants identified by the
Josephson Institute?
a. accountability
b. democratic leadership
c. public service
d. incomplete judgment
ANSWER: D PAGE:: p)4 -: LO 2
3) Those exempt from legal and moral culpability include all of the following except:
a. the insane
b. the young
c. the poor
d. one whose actions were coerced
ANSWER: C PAGE:: p) 12 -: LO 4
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4) Which of the following is not one of Braswell’s reasons to study ethics?
a. develop critical thinking skills
b. become aware and open to ethical issues
c. develop wholesight
d. improve public image
ANSWER: D PAGE:: p) 6 -: LO 1 & 2
5) The term _______________ PAGE:ers to what is judged as good conduct)
a. values
b. morality
c. honor
d. goodness
ANSWER: B PAGE:: p) 6 -: LO 3
6) The discipline investigating the meaning of ethical systems and whether they are relative or are
universal is known as:
a. normative ethics
b. applied ethics
c. forensic ethics
d. meta-ethics
ANSWER: D PAGE:: p) 6 -: LO 3
7) __________________ ethics determine what people ought to do and defines moral duties based on
ethical systems or other means of analysis)
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a. Applied
b. Normative
c. Professional
d. Conventional
ANSWER: B PAGE:: p) 8 -: LO 3
8) The application of ethical principles to specific issues such as social research or medical practice is
called:
a. meta-ethics
b. normative ethics
c. applied ethics
d. practical ethics
ANSWER: C PAGE:: p) 8 -: LO 3
9) While duties are what you must do in order to be good, ______________ are commendable but not
required actions)
a. functions
b. superogatories
c. imperfect duties
d. obligations
ANSWER: B PAGE:: p) 9 -: LO 3
10) A good Samaritan who jumps into a river to save a drowning child, risking his or her own life to do so,
has performed a(n):
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a. professional duty
b. ethical duty
c. superogatory action
d. moral duty
ANSWER: C PAGE:: p) 9 -: LO 3
11) Superogatories have to do with:
a. duties
b. virtues
c. laws
d. meta-ethics
ANSWER: A PAGE:: p) 9 -: LO 3
12) Which of the following is not an example of an imperfect duty?
a. a duty to be honest
b. a duty to be generous
c. a duty to take your life
d. a duty to help the poor
ANSWER: C PAGE:: p) 9 -: LO 3
13) If honesty or physical fitness are important to you, these traits would be:
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