Faculty of Engineering

Course: Engineering Ethics Level: 5th Grade

Semester: 10
Midterm Exam Questions: 17
Prof. Name: Hüseyin Onur Tezcan Duration: 35 min
Pages: 5

Instructions

 This is a closed books and notes exam. No calculators are permitted.

 Each question has only one correct answer and more than one mark for a question will be counted
as an incorrect answer. Please mark your answers clearly.
 The points per question are;
o Questions 1-13: Each correct answer is worth 7 points
o Questions 14-17: Each correct answer is worth 3 points
o Questions 1-17: Each incorrect answer is worth -1 point

This part is reserved for the students:

Name: ……………………………………………………………………………….

Number………………………………………………………………………………

IMPORTANT: DO NOT ASK any question. If you think that

there is something wrong with the question, please explain
it as an answer. If you are right you will get a full credit for
that question.
BONNE CHANCE!

QUESTIONS SCORE
1-13
14-17
TOTAL SCORE

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 QUESTIONS POINTS # CORRECT # INCORRECT # EMPTY SCORE
7 p/correct
1-13
-1 p/incorrect
3 p/correct
14-17
-1 p/incorrect
TOTAL SCORE

QUESTION 1. Which of the following is not one of the groups that are aimed to be directly benefited
by the Codes of Ethics for Engineers?
a) The clients
b) Engineering profession
c) Employers
d) The government
e) Professional societies

QUESTION 2. Which of the following statements about Codes of Ethics for Engineers is false?
a) Contain rules to avoid incorrect conducts
b) Contain rules about correct conducts
c) Contain disciplinary measures about incorrect conducts
d) Provide positive support to act ethically
e) Help promote the professional image

QUESTION 3. Which of the following is covered by Meta-Ethics?

a) Right conduct
b) Virtues
c) The meaning of ethical or moral terms
d) The existence of values
e) Moral dilemmas in daily life

QUESTION 4. Which of the following statements about Ethics is false?

a) Ethics is based on the moral codes of individuals.
b) Some conducts might be immoral and ethical at the same time.
c) Some conducts might be moral and unethical at the same time.
d) Ethics tries to change and correct the morals of individuals.
e) There may be ethical rules even for a family.
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QUESTION 5. You are planning to help an elderly person cross the street. If something bad
happens to this person while you try to help,
a) You fear of making the wrong decision according to Consequentialism.
b) You fear of making the wrong decision according to Kantianism.
c) You fear of making the wrong decision according to Value Ethics
d) You fear of making the wrong decision according to Meta-Ethics.
e) You do not think of doing anything wrong.

QUESTION 6. Which of the following statements about Professional Ethics is true?

a) Contains ethical standards accepted by a professional community.
b) It is limited only to the professions of engineering and medicine.
c) It is a field of Descriptive Ethics.
d) It only adopts the Act Utilitarianism approach.
e) It has no relationship with everyday life occurrences, it is purely theoretical.

QUESTION 7. Which of the following philosophers offered a Hedonic Calculus to evaluate the
degree to which an act produces pleasure?
a) Jeremy Bentham
b) W. David Ross
c) Democritus
d) Aristotle
e) John Stuart Mill

QUESTION 8. Which of the following best describes Aristotle’s Golden Mean?

a) Virtuous behavior is a continuous search to find the mean between ethics and morals.
b) Virtues allow us to find the mean between right and wrong.
c) Virtues are acquired through a sense of values.
d) Virtuous behavior is the balance between extremes of deficiency and excess.
e) Virtues are acquired through the balance between instruction and habituation.

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QUESTION 9. Which of the following statements about Morals is false?
a) Moral judgements are based on values of individuals.
b) Morals allow us to evaluate what is right or wrong.
c) Moral judgements may change in time and place.
d) Good morals represent correct and upright conduct.
e) The society has no role in shaping the moral judgements.

QUESTION 10. Which of the following statements about Ethics of Character is false?
a) It deals with the character of individuals.
b) It mentions virtues as one of the requirements to have a good character.
c) It says that both having good character traits and staying away from bad character attributes is
necessary.
d) It mentions being just (fair) as one of the ways to be a morally good person.
e) It says that a person having correct conduct will have a good character accordingly.

QUESTION 11. Which of the following statements is false?

a) Ethics of Conduct approach evaluates the acts of individuals according to the reasons or results.
b) In Ethical Egoism, the right action is the one that maximizes the long-term satisfaction of
someone’s own interests.
c) Act utilitarianism states that a person should perform the acts that benefit the most people,
regardless of the societal constraints such as laws.
d) In Social Contract theory, a member of the society may continue to stay as a member even
though she/he does not agree with the social rules.
e) Prima Facie Duties approach does not contain a duty that is the most important duty above
everything.

QUESTION 12. Which of the following statements about Research Ethics is incorrect?
a) Researchers should do their best to avoid plagiarism.
b) Institutions should distribute the available funds fairly.
c) Researchers should have the right not to disclose the consequences of the research to the
subjects.
d) Subjects should join the research study voluntarily.
e) Subjects should have the right to leave the research anytime they feel insecure.

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QUESTION 13. Which of the following statements about the Hyatt Regency Walkway Collapse in
1981 is true?
a) The basic problem was the improper communication between the design firm and the
manufacturing firm.
b) The accident occurred because of the mistakes done during the construction.
c) The accident happened because of the adverse weather conditions.
d) The main problem was the lack of experiential knowledge of the designers.
e) The walkway collapsed because of the lack of maintenance.

PLEASE REFER TO THE FOLLOWING CASE TO ANSWER QUESTIONS 14-17.

IN THESE QUESTIONS, YOU NEED TO ANALYZE THE ACT AND CHOOSE
BETWEEN GOOD AND BAD ACCORDING TO A PARTICULAR ETHICAL
THEORY. THE CASE IS REAL.

Alpay Ozalan was a soccer player who played for the Turkish National Soccer Team. He was
included in the squad that competed in the 1996 European Football Championship. In the
championship, the first game of Turkey was against Croatia. Many people in Turkey were expecting
a positive result (at least a draw) from the game. In the 86. minute of the game when the score was
0-0, Croatian player Goran Vlaovic found himself one-on-one with Alpay. He dribbled past Alpay,
scored a goal and Croatia won the game 1-0. Alpay could have fouled Vlaovic and stopped him
from scoring. However, he preferred not to do so and Turkey lost the game. If he had fouled, he
would probably get a red card, would not be able to play in the remaining games but the game
would surely end 0-0. Analyze Alpay’s decision.

QUESTION 14. Act Utilitarianism a) Good Conduct b) Bad Conduct

QUESTION 15. Rule Utilitarianism a) Good Conduct b) Bad Conduct

QUESTION 16. Kantianism a) Good Conduct b) Bad Conduct

QUESTION 17. Prima Facie Duties a) Good Conduct b) Bad Conduct

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