BUS 309 WEEK 3 CHAPTER 2 QUIZ

Question 1

Which of the following considerations about utilitarianism is correct?

[removed]		The great 19th century utilitarians, Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill, believed that pleasure and happiness were different things.
[removed]		Unlike Mill, Bentham was only concerned with the amount of pleasure that an action produces, not the quality of the pleasure.
[removed]		Act utilitarianism and rule utilitarianism boil down to the same thing.
[removed]		Utilitarians believe that we can't compare one person's happiness with that of another.

Question 2

According to Kant

[removed]		good will is the only thing that is good in itself.
[removed]		an action has moral worth if it is consistent with the categorical imperative.
[removed]		only actions based on feeling or sentiment have moral worth.
[removed]		a self-interested person can never do the right action.

Question 3

Which of the following represents a utilitarian belief?

[removed]		Rightness is determined by what most people want, i.e., by majority rule.
[removed]		Rightness is determined by what will bring about the most good.
[removed]		We should concern ourselves only with the immediate results of our actions.
[removed]		We must always disregard our own happiness when deciding what to do.

Question 4

"If you want to go to law school, then you must take the LSAT exam." This statement is an example of

[removed]		the transcendental imperative.
[removed]		a hypothetical imperative.
[removed]		the categorical imperative.
[removed]		irrational behavior.

Question 5

Kant believed that we should always act

[removed]		in such a way that we can will the maxim of our action to be a local law.
[removed]		in a way that treats success as an end in itself, never merely as means.
[removed]		in a way that would be universally unacceptable to all rational beings.
[removed]		in a way that we can will the maxim of our action to become a universal law.

Question 6

According to the utilitarian theory, an action is morally right if and only if

[removed]		it makes the person who does it happy.
[removed]		everyone prefers that action to any other action.
[removed]		it maximizes total, net happiness.
[removed]		it brings only happiness and causes no pain.

Question 7

The case of the "deathbed promise" shows that

[removed]		utilitarianism may lead to conclusions that conflict with commonsense morality.
[removed]		keeping your promises never maximizes happiness.
[removed]		it was wrong to have made the promise in the first place.
[removed]		utilitarianism boils down to egoism.

Question 8

According to W. D. Ross's theory

[removed]		a prima facie obligation is absolute and can never be overridden.
[removed]		what we should do in any specific set of circumstances will always be self-evident.
[removed]		it would be wrong to lie to a murderer even to save the life of a friend.
[removed]		we have various moral duties that can't be reduced to a single, overarching obligation.

Question 9

Egoism as a psychological theory

[removed]		states that self-interest is the only thing that ever motivates anyone.
[removed]		is the same thing as ethical egoism.
[removed]		states that people are sometimes selfish.
[removed]		is based on egoism as an ethical theory.

Question 10

Which of the following statements is true regarding human rights?

[removed]		Human rights are equal rights; if X is a human right, then everyone has this right.
[removed]		Human rights are transferable and thus "alienable".
[removed]		Human rights rest on particular roles and special relationships.
[removed]		Human rights are not natural but are always grounded in a specific legal or political system.

Question 11

Nonconsequentialists like Ross believe that

[removed]		we have no obligation to promote general welfare.
[removed]		utilitarianism doesn't require us to sacrifice as much as we should to help other people.
[removed]		morality permits each of us a sphere in which to pursue our own plans and goals.
[removed]		people's so-called "moral rights" are unimportant when determining the right course of action.

Question 12

Utilitarianism is appealing as a standard for moral decision making in business. Which of the following provides a reason for this?

[removed]		Utilitarianism provides an objective way of resolving conflicts of self-interest.
[removed]		Utilitarianism provides a rigid approach to moral decision making.
[removed]		Utilitarianism provides a fuzzy standard for formulating and testing policies.
[removed]		Utilitarianism gives us firm rules to follow, rules that don't permit exceptions.

Question 13

The only accurate statement about consequentalism is:

[removed]		Utilitarianism is a nonconsequentialist ethical theory.
[removed]		Utilitarianism is an egoistic normative theory.
[removed]		Consequentialism says that the moral rightness of an action is determined solely by its results.
[removed]		Nonconsequentialists deny that consequences have any moral significance.

Question 14

The statement that best defines rights is

[removed]		all moral rights are legal rights.
[removed]		a negative right is a right to receive certain benefits.
[removed]		a right is an entitlement to act or to have others act in a certain way.
[removed]		all moral rights are human rights.

Question 15

A key idea of Immanuel Kant's ethical theory is that:

[removed]		all duties are prima facie duties.
[removed]		the moral permissibility of our actions depends entirely upon their consequences.
[removed]		we should treat people as ends in themselves, never merely as means.
[removed]		only pleasure has intrinsic value.

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