Assessment Task 8-1

Multiple Choice
Instruction:
Select the correct answer under each statement.

A 1. Wrote the essay “On Liberty.”

a. Mill
b. Mastin
c. Bentham
d. Priestly
e. Epicurus

A 2. Wrote the short novel, Utilitarianism.

a. Mill
b. Bentham
c. Mastin
d. Priestly
e. Epicurus

C 3. Discovered pain and joy to be the World’s only fundamental values

a. Epicurus
b. Priestly
c. Bentham
d. Mastin
e. Mill

D 4. Argued that other outcomes should be respected and taken into account.
a. Utilitarian’s
b. Critics
c. Ethicist
d. Consequentialist
e. Theologian

E 5. Objected to the right and wrong dichotomy inherent in utilitarianism.

a. Consequentialist
b. Ethicist
c. Utilitarian’s
d. Theologians
e. Critics

E 6. The most common approach to business ethics because of the way that it accounts for cost and
benefits.
a. Unified
b. Justification
c. Utility
d. Unism
e. Utilitarianism

D 7. The concept that the Act utilitarianism often demonstrates.

a. The end justifies the teaching
b. The end justifies faith
c. The end justifies the success
d. The end justifies the means
e. The end justifies the beginnings

C 8. Looking for companies that they can trust.

a. Farmers
b. Workers
c. Consumers
d. Managers
e. Lawyers

B 9. Work better where there is a solid model of ethics in place.

a. Officials
b. Employees
c. Employers
d. Owners
e. Financer

A 10. Helps the largest number of people using the fairest methods possible.
a. Rule utilitarianism
b. Act utilitarianism
c. Theorical utilitarianism
d. Ethical utilitarianism
e. Moral utilitarianism

Assessment 8-2
True or False. Instruction: Write True if the statement is correct and False is the statement is not
correct.

False 1. John Stuart Mill art about the greatest happiness principle wrote of ethics and was
known for a system of penal management called pen option.
False 2. Jeremy Bentham was an advocate of economic freedom women’s right and the
operation of church and state.
True 3. Utilitarianism is an ethical theory that argues for the goodness of pleasure and the
determination of right behavior based on the usefulness of the action’s consequence.
True 4. Utility refers to the usefulness of the consequences of one’s action and behavior.
True 5. Jeremy Bentham and James Mill are the two foremost utilitarian thinkers.
True 6. Mill argues that our actions are governed by two sovereign masters which he calls
pleasure and pain.
True 7. Utilitarianism is consequentialist
True 8. Masters are given to us by nature to help us determine what is good or bad and what
ought to be done and not; they fasten our choices to their throne.
True 9. It is quite compatible which the principle of utility to recognize the fact that some
kinds of pleasure are more desirable and more valuable from others.
False 10. Bentham argues that quality is more preferable than quantity.
True 11. Bentham understands justice as a respect for rights directed toward society’s
pursuit for the greatest happiness of the greatest number.
True 12. Mill understands that rights are a valid claim on society and are justified by utility.
True 13. Utilitarianism is interested with the best consequences for the highest number of
people.
True 14. He who saves a fellow creature from drowning does what is morally right whether
his motive be duty or the hope of being paid for his trouble.
True 15. Bentham understands that legal rights are neither inviolable nor natural, but rights
are subject to some exceptions.
False 16. One’s right to privacy can be sacrificed for the sake not of the common good.
True 17. It is unjust to deprive any one of his personal liberty his property or any other thing
which belongs to him by law.
True 18. All persons are deemed to have a right to equality of treatment, except when some,
recognized social expediency requires the reverse.
True 19. Theoretically constitutes a thought experiment and need not be actualized
False 20. Bentham agrees that higher pleasure is those preferred by the majority of people.
False 21. Bentham argues that rights are socially protected interests that are justified by their
contribution to the greatest happiness principle.
True 22. Utilitarianism is a moral theory that grounds the rightness or wrongness of an act
based on its effects rather than on the act per seconds.
True 23. Based on the principle of utility, human action by its own nature does not possess
any moral qualification.
True 24. Utilitarianism judges the rightness or wrongness of act thoughts a utilitarianism
 calculus or the measurement of pleasure or happiness.
True 25. Utilitarianism theory is a philosophical theory of nature.
False 26. Rule utilitarianism makes the most ethical actions possible for the benefit of the
people.
True 27. If an action makes one happy, then it is good.
False 28. According to Mill the foundation of utilitarian morality is that an act produces the
greatest amount of pleasure or happiness and minimize and if possible, eliminate pain
or suffering.
False 29. According to Mill justice can be interpreted in terms of moral rights because justice
promotes the greater social good.
False 30. Act utilitarianism helps the largest number of people using the fairest methods
possible.

Assessment 8-3
Matching Type. Instruction: Match statements under letter A to letter B.

ANSWER A B
e. Rule Utilitarianism 1. Helps the number of people a. Utility
d. Act Utilitarianism 2. Makes the most ethical actions b. Mastin
c. Utilitarianism 3. Approach to business ethics c. Utilitarianism
b. Mastin 4. Utilitarianism is the principle summed up d. Act Utilitarianism
by all individuals
a. Utility 5. Measure of relative happiness e. Rule Utilitarianism
f. Epicurus followers 6. Greek Philosopher f. Epicurus followers
g. David Hume and 7. Proto-utilitarianism g. David Hume and Edmund
Edmund Burke Burke
h. Bentham 8. English Philosopher h. Bentham
i. Joseph Priestly 9. Founder of Unitarianism in England i. Joseph Priestly
j. Mill 10. Wrote the essay “on Liberty” j. Mill