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Question 1
1 out of 1 points
According to "The Ethics of Synthetic Biology: Guiding Principles for Emerging
Technology",which of the following is not included in Responsible stewardship?
Selected Answer: C.
Humans should be responsible stewards of emerging technology.
Question 2
1 out of 1 points
According to "The Sad Suicide of Admiral Nimitz", what does the Christian moral code
say about ending a life?
Selected Answer: D.
God is the author of life and no man has the right to take his life.
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Course ABS 302: Ethical & Policy Issues in Bio
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Question 3
1 out of 1 points
According to the Video "Bionics, Transhumanism, and the end of Evolution", Genetics,
robotics, artificial inteligence, bionics and nanotechnology seem to be converging to one
goal. What is that goal?
Selected Answer: C.
To transcend human limits.
Question 4
1 out of 1 points
According to "Emerging Technologies that could destroy the World", what is the blood
brain barrier?
Selected
Answer:
A.
A tightly knit layer of cells that affords the brain the highest possible
protection from the simple chemicals and microorganisms that could harm
it.
Question 5
2 out of 2 points
According to Could the US Deploy Cyborg Troops?Why haven’t cyborgs been
successful yet?
Selected
Answer:
D.
Current human neural interfaces squash massive amounts of data
through about 100 channels.
Question 6
1 out of 1 points
According to the Video "Bionics, Transhumanism, and the end of Evolution", why is it
more difficult to keep the brain alive outside the body, than other organs?
Selected Answer: B.
It has a very delicate blood supply.
Question 7
1 out of 1 points
According to Ethics Conflicts in Rural Communities: End-of-Life Decision-
Making At one time CPR was seen as a medical obligation, rather than a therapy that
could be withheld at a patient or surrogate’s request.
Selected Answer: True
Question 8
1 out of 1 points
In "Grandma and her Robot", Ray Bradburry's science fiction story "Mariontte's Inc." is
described. In this story, a husband who wants to leave his wife but doesn't want to hurt
her purchases a robot of himself. What happens to him on the night he decides to leave
her?
Selected
Answer:
A.
He puts his head on his wife's chest and hears the artificial ticking of a
robot heart.
Question 9
1 out of 1 points
According to "Assisted Suicide - Right or Wrong?"It is argued that sanctioning assisted
suicide would violate the rights of others. How would this affect doctor and nurses?
Selected B.
Answer: Doctors and nurses might find themselves "pressured" to cooperate in a
patients suicides and go aginst their deeply held convictions.
Question 10
1 out of 1 points
According to "The Ethics of Synthetic Biology: Guiding Principles for Emerging
Tehnologies", all of the following are guiding principles for assessing emerging
technology except for which one?
Selected Answer: C.
Safety and threats of terrorism.
Question 11
1 out of 1 points
According to Ethics Conflicts in Rural Communities: End-of-Life Decision-
Making What is the most common end of life care decision made?
Selected Answer: D.
DNAR
Question 12
1 out of 1 points
According to "Physician Assisted Suicide: Legal and ethical considerations"in the state
of Oregon, there are 6 threshold requirements in order for a physician to prescribe
medications used to end one's life. Which of the following are NOT one of those
requirements?
Selected
Answer:
C.
Patient has informed family members of his or her desire to end their
life.
Question 13
1 out of 1 points
According toCould the US Deploy Cyborg Troops?What's a Cyborg?
Selected
Answer:
A.
a person whose physical abilites are extended beyond normal human
limitations by mechanical elements built into the body.
Question 14
1 out of 1 points
According to the ALCOR life extension foundation website, what happens to the souls of
people in cryopreservation?
Selected
Answer:
C.
The soul of a cryonics patient is in the same condition as the soul of a
frozen embryo or the soul of a person in a comma or unconscious.
Question 15
2 out of 2 points
In the Video "Bionics, Transhumanism, and the end of Evolution",Dr. Hans Moore states
that the skills of computers are developing at a rate tht is 10 million times faster than we,
ourselves have developed. He believes computers will have surpassed us in how many
years?
Selected Answer: B.
50 years.
Question 16
1 out of 1 points
In the Video "Bionics, Transhumanism, and the end of Evolution", Dr. Dan reconstructed
what a cat sees on a computer screen. The cat was watching "Indiana Jones". When they
zoomed in on the last image observed, instead of a man, this image had what type of
appearance?
Selected Answer: B.
The image was Cat Like.
Question 17
2 out of 2 points
According to Could the US Deploy Cyborg Troops?, How will the Neural Engineering
System chip interact with our nervous system?
Selected
Answer:
C.
The chip will translate brain signals into the ones and zeros that
computers understand.
Question 18
1 out of 1 points
According to "Physician Assisted Suicide: Legal and ethical considerations", once the
threshold requirements have been established, obtaining a prescription requires all but
the which of the following steps?
Selected
Answer:
D.
The prescibing physician must have reasonable proof that the patient has
not been coerced into making a decision to end his or her life.
Question 19
1 out of 1 points
According to "Physician assisted suicide- Legal and Ethical Considerations", What
is nonmaleficence?
Selected Answer: C.
Do no harm.
Question 20
1 out of 1 points
According to "Assisted Suicide - Right or Wrong?", Supporters of assisted suicide
claim, we ourselves have an obligation to relieve the suffering of our fellow human
beings and to respect what?
Selected Answer: A.
Their dignity.
Question 21
1 out of 1 points
According to "New Mexico Judge affirms Right to Aid in Dying", a state court in New
Mexico ruled that terminally ill residents have a constitutional right to obtain “aid in
dying,” a ruling that could make New Mexico the fifth state to allow doctors to prescribe
fatal drug doses that suffering patients can use to end their lives. All of the following
states currently allow this practice except for which one?
Selected Answer: A.
California
Question 22
1 out of 1 points
According to the Video "Bionics, Transhumanism, and the end of Evolution",Dr. Thomas
De MArse grows neurons and listens to "converstions" between them. What other
interesting research is he conducting involving aircraft?
Selected
Answer:
D.
He stimulates neurons and teaches the brains dishes how to fly an
aircraft.
Question 23
1 out of 1 points
According to "Physician assisted suicide- Legal and Ethical Considerations", what is "
autonomy"?
Selected
Answer:
A.
Freedom from unwanted health services is a negative legal and ethical
right grounded in the liberty right to be free from unwanted interference.
Question 24
1 out of 1 points
According to Ethics Conflicts in Rural Communities: End-of-Life Decision-
Making If the provider disagrees with the patient’s choices, he or she has an ethical
obligation to inform the patient when the document is executed, and to either resolve the
conflict, or arrange for transfer of care.
Selected Answer: True
Question 25
1 out of 1 points
According to "Physician Assisted Suicide: Legal and ethical considerations"Given that
Dutch physicians historically have been willing to actively euthanize persons without
their consent, persons at risk are justified in fearing that their lives will be ended without
their consent. This fear has caused many of the most vulnerable Dutch—the disabled or
elderly—to do what?
Selected Answer: B.
Carry cards specifying their desire to continue living.
Question 26
2 out of 2 points
In "Thinking ethically, A Framework for Moral Decision Making", which ethical
approach provides for the greatest good over evil?
Selected Answer: D.
Utilitarian Approach
Question 27
1 out of 1 points
According to "Aide in Dying", in a nation with great — and ever-increasing —
disparities of wealth and education and ever-growing numbers of uninsured and
underinsured citizens, what problem might arise (with regard to adequate safegaurds?).
Selected
Answer:
B.
The problem that people who cannot pay for health care might regularly
be coerced to die may be genuinely unmanageable.
Question 28
1 out of 1 points
In the Video "Bionics, Transhumanism, and the end of Evolution", Dr. Mark Tilden has
not developed a brain for his machines but claims his machines can learn through what
type of system?
Selected Answer: D.
A Nervous system.
Question 29
1 out of 1 points
According to "Physician Assisted Suicide: Legal and ethical considerations",The
evolution toward recognizing the appropriateness of assistance in dying raises legal and
ethical issues for physicians and healthcare institutions such as nursing facilities and
acute care hospitals. Which of the following are not one of the ethical issues raised in
this article?
Selected Answer: D.
the effect on those without healthcare
Question 30
1 out of 1 points
According to the Video "Bionics, Transhumanism, and the end of Evolution", when did
the Human Genome project begin?
Selected Answer: C.
1990
Question 31
1 out of 1 points
According to "Persistent Indeterminate Case: Reflections on the Wendland Case", what
percentage of Americans have DPAHC?
Selected Answer: B.
10-15%
Question 32
1 out of 1 points
According to "Physician assisted suicide- Legal and Ethical Considerations", Data from
a survey of Oregon Physicians not opposed to PAS illustrate that these physicians share
all except which of the following concerns?
Selected Answer: A.
Many feared their moral conscious would haunt them later in life.
Question 33
1 out of 1 points
According to Physician assisted suicide- Legal and Ethical
Considerations, The Hippocratic tradition prohibits physicians from what?
Selected Answer: A.
Administering a deadly drug to a patient.
Question 34
1 out of 1 points
According to "Physician assisted suicide- Legal and Ethical Considerations", A
California Public opinion poll after Jack Kevorkian's second degree murder conviction
showed that public support of PAS has decreased.
Selected Answer: False
Question 35
1 out of 1 points
According to the Video "Bionics, Transhumanism, and the end of Evolution", Dr.
White does not believe that consciousness and personality can be transplanted.
Selected Answer: False
Question 36
1 out of 1 points
According to Ethics Conflicts in Rural Communities: End-of-Life Decision-
Making Family members, may feel that withdrawing life support is morally different
than doing what?
Selected Answer: A.
withholding such therapy in the first place
Question 37
1 out of 1 points
According to Physician assisted suicide- Legal and Ethical Considerations,Why did the
Michigan Court of Appeals acquit Kevorkian?
Selected Answer: C.
Assisted suicide is a constitutional right.
Question 38
1 out of 1 points
According to Ethics Conflicts in Rural Communities: End-of-Life Decision-
Making Which of the following NOT example of written Advance directives ?
Selected Answer: D.
Comparative Assessment of Burden document
Question 39
1 out of 1 points
According to the Video "Bionics, Transhumanism, and the end of Evolution", If nanobots
were programmed for a terroist action, what could happen to the earth?
Selected
Answer:
B.
The earth would be transformed into a "gray goo" of nanobots within
72 hours.
Question 40
1 out of 1 points
According toCould the US Deploy Cyborg Troops?Currently, human-computer
interface technology connects a machine to approximately 100 to 1,000 neurons at a
time. True or false?
Selected Answer: True
Question 41
1 out of 1 points
According to "The Ethics of Synthetic Biology: Guiding Principles for Emerging
Technologies"The commission consisdered the potential risks and benefits of the field,
reviewed the technology in the context of essential conceptions of human agency and
life, as well as the human relationship to nature, and unanimously concluded what?
Selected
Answer:
C.
The field of synthetic biology does not require new regulation, oversight
boundries, or a moratorium at this time.
Question 42
1 out of 1 points
According to Could the US Deploy Cyborg Troops? DARPA anticipates investing up
to $60 million in the NESD program over four years. True or False?
Selected Answer: True
Question 43
1 out of 1 points
According to Physician assisted suicide- Legal and Ethical Considerations, as a matter of
constitutional law in the United States, what is the state required to do when the patient
cannot communicate their desire?
Selected Answer: C.
The state must act to protect and further life.
Question 44
1 out of 1 points
According to Physician assisted suicide- Legal and Ethical Considerations, What was
Kevorkian's primary defense and how was this similar to similar to that of Roe vs. Wade?
Selected
Answer:
A.
His primary defense was that laws which criminalized assisted suicide are
an unconstitutional interference in a person’s right to privacy.
Question 45
1 out of 1 points
According to "5 Emerging Technolgies that could Destroy the World" what is "black
biology"?
Selected
Answer:
C.
Organisms that have had their genes manipulated, giving them new
pathogenic characteristics.
Question 46
1 out of 1 points
The author of "Grandma and Her Robot" feels that robots could undermine deeply held
human values.
Selected Answer: True
Question 47
1 out of 1 points
According to "Physician Assisted Suicide: Legal and ethical considerations", Assisted
suicide has been available in Switzerland since what year?
Selected Answer: D.
1942
Question 48
1 out of 1 points
According to Physician assisted suicide- Legal and Ethical Considerations, which of the
following is not one of the reasons Kevorkian was criticized on professional and ethical
grounds?
Selected
Answer:
B.
Kevorkian did not establish any relationship with family members of
his patients.
Question 49
1 out of 1 points
According to "Physician assisted suicide- Legal and Ethical Considerations" what is the
most important reason for traditional health care organizations to decline to assist in
suicide?
Selected
Answer:
B.
The public may find it fearsome and inconsistent that providers they are
asked to trust to help them regain and maintain their health also assist in
suicide.
Question 50
1 out of 1 points
In "The Ethics of Synthetic Biology: Guiding principles for emerging technology",
democracies depend on intellectual freedom, coupled with the responsibilities of
individuals and institutions to use their creative potential in what way?
Selected Answer: B.
In morally responsible ways.
Question 51
1 out of 1 points
According to "Grandma and Her Robot", what is Paro?
Selected Answer: A.
A six pound robot modeled after a baby harp seal.
Question 52
1 out of 1 points
According to the Video "Bionics, Transhumanism, and the end of Evolution", What is the
secret of Life?
Selected Answer: B.
The DNA code.
Question 53
1 out of 1 points
According to "The Sad Suicide of Admiral Nimitz", Which of the following is NOTa
prediction the author makes regarding euthanasia in the future?
Selected
Answer:
D.
Healthcare facilities will no longer be inundated with the aging allowing
for an improved ratio of doctors to patients.
Question 54
1 out of 1 points
According to Ethics Conflicts in Rural Communities: End-of-Life Decision-
Making Remarks about starvation should be excused, as the interpretation of those who
are morally opposed to withholding artificial nutrition and hydration (ANH).
Selected Answer: False
Question 55
1 out of 1 points
According to Physician assisted suicide- Legal and Ethical Considerations, of the 130
patients that died with Kevorkian's assistance, what percentage were known to be
terminally ill?
Selected Answer: B.
40%
Question 56
1 out of 1 points
According to "Persistent Indeterminate State: Reflections on the Wendland Case", Why
did the California Supreme Court rule that Rose lacked the legal authority to refuse tube
feedings on her husband's behalf?
Selected
Answer:
B.
Robert had not used a durable power of attorney for health care to give
Rose his medical decision-making authority.
Question 57
1 out of 1 points
In the Video "Bionics, Transhumanism, and the end of Evolution", Carl Simms desisgned
a software program with small cubic creatures that were able to evolve through
prgrammed random change. What happened with this program that was extraordinary
and unexpected?
Selected Answer: D.
One cube attacked another. It had organized itself.
Question 58
1 out of 1 points
In the Video "Bionics, Transhumanism, and the end of Evolution", Max Moore
(philosopher) believes we all came about in a random fashion with imperfections. What
does he believe is one of the most moral things we can do for humans?
Selected Answer: B.
Genetic Engineering.
Question 59
1 out of 1 points
According to the Video "Bionics, Transhumanism, and the end of Evolution", Dr. Robert
White was the first to do what with a brain?
Selected Answer: D.
keep the brain alive outside the human body.
Question 60
1 out of 1 points
According to "Emerging Technologies that could destroy the World", how large are
typical nanostructures?
Selected Answer: C.
The width of a DNA.
Question 61
1 out of 1 points
According to Ethics Conflicts in Rural Communities: End-of-Life Decision-
Making Who can NOT be named as Surragate Decision makers?
Selected
Answer:
C.
Hospice care provider present when patient is transferred to long term
care facility
