1.  The idea that the assisted suicide of terminally ill patients should be allowed simply at the patient's direction reflects what type of ethics?

• Hobbes' State of Nature
• Rand's Objectivism
• Aristotle's concept of Virtue
• Thomas Aquinas' concept of conscience
• Socrates' concept of excellence

2.What is the moral ideal of temperance?

• Exercising control over one's own desires and inclinations
• Keeping one's temper under control
• Minimizing the impact of one's decisions
• Seeking the good of others before one's own
• Overcoming one's passions

3. One of the common errors in Ethics is that of the hasty conclusions. Hasty conclusions consist of what?

• Rushed work under pressure
• Comparing unknown cases to known ones to find precedents
• Embracing conclusions before examining cases fully
• Judging cases by the source of their origin
• Belief that first impressions are valid until challenged

4. Prescriptive language is commonly used in ethics for what reason?

• To indicate what is prohibited or impossible
• To indicate that one choice is better than others
• To show what actions are legal
• To convey requirements and obligations
• To indicate that there are really no choices available

5.  Ethical Egoism proposes that all decisions should be made to promote what?

• Our fiduciary responsibilities
• The good will of others
• Our self-interests
• The welfare of the community
• Stronger relationships

6. Free people are motivated toward forming social structures according to a social contract in order to overcome what problem identified by Thomas Hobbes?

• The need to overcome disagreements
• A perpetual state of warfare
• The establishment of a monarchy
• Taxation to support the costs of government
• Organized ways to select leaders

7. Agricultural biofuels are not properly a renewable source of energy in the environmental ethics debate. Which of the following also is not a renewable source of energy?

• Windmill turbines
• Hydroelectric power
• Tidal flow generators
• Biomass waste systems
• Solar cells

8. The notion that the only thing good without qualification is a good will is attributed to whom?

• St. Thomas Aquinas
• Socrates
• John Locke
• Immanuel Kant
• Oliver Cromwell

9. Which ethical concept is organized and directed toward following the greatest happiness principle?

• Natural ethics and law
• Justice and mercy
• Rights and responsibilities
• Virtue-ethics of excellence
• Principle of utility

10. Syllogisms in formal deductive logic are called "valid" when:

• the correct form of the syllogism style is used.
• the premise statements are true.
• the syllogism is first determined to be "sound."
• the verbs are written in present tense.
• the conclusion proceeds from the premises.

11.When choosing one course of action while working with a dilemma, the other courses of action are lost and become unavailable. This makes ethical choices in dilemma situations particularly what?

• Incoherent
• Complicated
• Illogical
• Painful
• Cruel

12. What is the role of conscience as Thomas Aquinas sees it?

• To teach ethical principles
• To disclose and build religious faith
• To enable rational thought about consequences
• To align personal ethics with those of others
• To guide actions through a view of right and wrong

13.The rule or principle to be applied in making decisions is an example of which kind of ethical discovery process?

• Principle of utility
• A posteriori rationality
• A priori rationality
• Empirical rationality
• Scientific method

14. The Social Contract theorist whose troubled childhood was most clearly reflected in his theories was who?

• Thomas Aquinas
• Thomas Jefferson
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• Thomas Hobbes
• John Locke

15. Kant's concern that people choose to observe universal laws as their duty is expressed through what actions?

• Their habits
• Their maxims
• Their desires
• Their loves
• Their loyalties

16. Aristotle's Ethics of Virtue have found modern application for business and industry through what practice?

• Resolution models applications
• Goals and objectives
• Core values of organizations
• Business models
• Professional codes of discipline

17. Professional codes of conduct serve what function for business and industry?

• Allow businesses to avoid training professional staffers
• Enable transfer of valued employees across state lines
• Enable contracting of temporary employees
• Specify continuing education needs and requirements
• Providing assurance of the professional qualifications of members

18.  Aristotle's Ethical Doctrine of the Mean measured personal virtues on a scale that included the virtue itself, the excess of it, and the deficiency of it.

If the virtue is COURAGE and the deficiency is COWARDICE, what is the excess?

• Wisdom
• Moderation
• There is no excess
• Recklessness
• Love

19.In personal or organizational conflict, what benefits accrue to all parties when a leader or consultant employees one of the ethical conflict resolution models of Week 6?

• Objectives of what winning the conflict means get refined and better understood
• Conflict management gets slowed down and settled.
• Conflict can be handled in a sequential, step-by-step manner
• Parties can be reconciled without solving the issues
• Personal relationships can be separated from issues

20. The Latin term a priori describes the origin of knowledge developed rationally, and the term a posteriori describes knowledge developed through observation and experience. What is an example of ethics is best described as discovered in an a postiori manner?

• Social ethics
• Care-based ethics
• Consequentialist ethics
• Theological ethics
• Operational ethics