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1. Ethics can be defined broadly as the study of what is good or right for human beings.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
POINTS: 1
DIFFICULTY: Easy
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: EBLE.MANN.16.02.01
NATIONAL STANDARDS: United States - BUSPROG: Ethics
STATE STANDARDS: United States - OH - AICPA: BB-Legal
TOPICS: A-Head: Law versus Ethics
KEYWORDS: Bloom’s: Knowledge
OTHER: AACSB Ethics | AACSB Analytic
2. Like legal analyses, analyses of ethics have a central authority and follow clear-cut, universal standards.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
POINTS: 1
DIFFICULTY: Moderate
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: EBLE.MANN.16.02.01
NATIONAL STANDARDS: United States - BUSPROG: Ethics
STATE STANDARDS: United States - OH - AICPA: BB-Legal
TOPICS: A-Head: Law versus Ethics
KEYWORDS: Bloom’s: Analysis
OTHER: AACSB Ethics | AACSB Analytic
3. Under the stakeholder model, a derivative of the social contract theory, a corporation has fiduciary responsibilities to
more than just its stockholders.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
POINTS: 1
DIFFICULTY: Easy
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: EBLE.MANN.16.02.05
NATIONAL STANDARDS: United States - BUSPROG: Ethics
STATE STANDARDS: United States - OH - AICPA: BB-Legal
TOPICS: A-Head: Ethical Responsibilities of Business
KEYWORDS: Bloom’s: Comprehension
OTHER: AACSB Ethics | AACSB Analytic
4. Kohlberg believed that all people reach the third stage of moral development by adulthood.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
POINTS: 1
DIFFICULTY: Easy
5. An ethical relativist looks to a central authority, such as the Bible, to guide her in ethical decision making.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
POINTS: 1
DIFFICULTY: Easy
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: EBLE.MANN.16.02.02
NATIONAL STANDARDS: United States - BUSPROG: Ethics
STATE STANDARDS: United States - OH - AICPA: BB-Legal
TOPICS: A-Head: Ethical Theories
KEYWORDS: Bloom’s: Knowledge
OTHER: AACSB Ethics | AACSB Analytic
7. Situational ethics, unlike ethical relativism, judges a person's ethics, but first looks at the decision or act from the
perspective of the actor.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
POINTS: 1
DIFFICULTY: Easy
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: EBLE.MANN.16.02.02
NATIONAL STANDARDS: United States - BUSPROG: Ethics
STATE STANDARDS: United States - OH - AICPA: BB-Legal
TOPICS: A-Head: Ethical Theories
KEYWORDS: Bloom’s: Comprehension
OTHER: AACSB Ethics | AACSB Analytic
8. Jeremy Bentham was a proponent of utilitarianism.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
POINTS: 1
DIFFICULTY: Easy
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: EBLE.MANN.16.02.03
NATIONAL STANDARDS: United States - BUSPROG: Ethics
STATE STANDARDS: United States - OH - AICPA: BB-Legal
TOPICS: A-Head: Ethical Theories
KEYWORDS: Bloom’s: Knowledge
OTHER: AACSB Ethics | AACSB Analytic
9. A person who believes in the situational ethics theory would agree that precise guidelines for business behavior must be
developed and adhered to by business professionals.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
POINTS: 1
DIFFICULTY: Moderate
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: EBLE.MANN.16.02.02
NATIONAL STANDARDS: United States - BUSPROG: Ethics
STATE STANDARDS: United States - OH - AICPA: BB-Legal
TOPICS: A-Head: Ethical Theories
KEYWORDS: Bloom’s: Analysis
OTHER: AACSB Ethics | AACSB Analytic
10. A leading proponent of the utilitarian approach to ethics was the eighteenth century philosopher Immanuel Kant.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
POINTS: 1
DIFFICULTY: Easy
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: EBLE.MANN.16.02.03
NATIONAL STANDARDS: United States - BUSPROG: Ethics
STATE STANDARDS: United States - OH - AICPA: BB-Legal
TOPICS: A-Head: Ethical Theories
KEYWORDS: Bloom’s: Knowledge
OTHER: AACSB Ethics | AACSB Analytic
Charles Thompson,
Secretary.
Constitution of the United States of America,
ARTICLE I.
ARTICLE II.
ARTICLE III.
ARTICLE IV.
Section I.—Full Faith and Credit shall be given in each State to the
public Acts, Records, and judicial Proceedings of every other State.
And the Congress may by general Laws prescribe the Manner in
which such Acts, Records and Proceedings shall be proved, and the
Effect thereof.
Section II.—The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all
Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States.
A Person charged in any State with Treason, Felony, or other
Crime, who shall flee from Justice, and be found in another State,
shall on Demand of the executive Authority of the State from which
he fled, be delivered up, to be removed to the State having
Jurisdiction of the Crime.
No Person held to Service or Labour in one State, under the Laws
thereof, escaping into another, shall, in Consequence of any Law or
Regulation therein, be discharged from such Service or Labour, but
shall be delivered up on Claim of the Party to whom such Service or
Labour may be due.
Section iii. New States may be admitted by the Congress into this
Union; but no new State shall be formed or erected within the
Jurisdiction of any other State; nor any State be formed by the
Junction of two or more States, or Parts of States, without the
Consent of the Legislatures of the States concerned as well as of the
Congress.
The Congress shall have Power to dispose of and make all needful
Rules and Regulations respecting the Territory or other Property
belonging to the United States; and nothing in this Constitution shall
be so construed as to Prejudice any Claims of the United States, or of
any particular State.
Section iv. The United States shall guarantee to every State in this
Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of
them against Invasion, and on Application of the Legislature, or of
the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against
domestic Violence.
ARTICLE V.
Article VI.
Article VII.
Nathaniel Gorham,
Massachusetts.
Rufus King.
Wil: Livingston,
Wm. Paterson,
New Jersey.
David Brearley,
Jona. Dayton.
B. Franklin,
Robt. Morris,
Tho: Fitzsimons,
James Wilson,
Pennsylvania.
Thomas Mifflin,
Geo: Clymer,
Jared Ingersoll,
Gouv: Morris.
Geo: Read,
John Dickinson,
Delaware. Jaco: Broom,
Gunning Bedford, Jr.,
Richard Bassett.
James M’Henry,
Maryland. Danl. Carroll,
Dan: of St. Thos: Jenifer.
John Blair,
Virginia.
James Madison, Jr.
Wm. Blount,
North Carolina. Hu. Williamson,
Rich’d Dobbs Spaight.
J. Rutledge,
Charles Pinckney,
South Carolina.
Charles Cotesworth Pinckney,
Pierce Butler.
William Few,
Georgia.
Abr. Baldwin.