1.

The following are definitions of Ethics, EXCEPT one:

a. Deals with the right ways in which we could and should act and wrong ways of acting
b. Deals about good things to pursue and bad things to avoid
c. Deals about what is acceptable and unacceptable in human behavior
d. None of these
2. What is that judgment of personal approval or disapproval that we make about what we see, hear or taste?
a. Technique b. Technical
c. Aesthetic d. Etiquette
3. Matters that concern life and death like war and abortion can be a part of the study of ethics.
a. True b. False
c. Partly True d. Partly False
4. A historian studying different moral standards over time without making any judgment of that standard is an
example of?
a. Descriptive ethics b. Normative ethics
c. Derivative ethics d. Historic ethics
5. When a person makes assessment of someone’s action, he is making a-
a. Moral Issue b. Moral Judgment
c. Moral Decision d. Moral Dilemma
6. This is a systematic attempt to establish the validity of maintaining certain moral principles
a. Moral Principle b. Moral Theory
c. Moral reason d. Moralco
7. Which of the following is not a source of authority that imposes standards of valuation and commands our
obedience?
a. Law b. Culture
c. Religion d. Ethics
8. What is ethically acceptable or unacceptable is dependent on one culture.
a. Cultural Relativism b. Culture Diversity
c. Cultural Differences d. Culture shock
9. This sense of the self considers individual as the sole determinant of what is morally good or bad.
a. Ethical egoism b. Psychological egoism
c. Subjectivism d. None of these
10. Psychological egoism has strong points since it is, EXCEPT:
a. Simple b. Plausible
c. Reliable d. Irrefutable
11. This prescribes that we should make our own ends, own interests, as the single overriding concern
a. Ethical egoism b. Psychological egoism
c. Subjectivism d. None of these
12. It is an ethical theory that determine right behavior based on the usefulness of the action’s consequences.
a. Utilitarian b. Utilitarianism
c. Hedonism d. Subjectivism
13. How do we know than an action is useful?
a. When it produces greater good b. When it produces happiness
c. When it produces pleasure than pain d. When you become happy
14. Who were the two advocates of Utilitarianism?
I. John Bentham III. John Stuart Mill
II. Jeremy Bentham IV. Jeremy Mill
a. I and IV b. II and IV
b. c. II an IV d. II and III
15. What is that framework made by Bentham that calculates the pleasure that some actions can produce.
a. Felicific Calculus b. Fecundity
c. Purity d. Utilitarianism
16. This refers to the approval or disapproval concerning actions which are trivial in nature.
a. Technique b. Technical
c. Aesthetic d. Etiquette
17. This type of ethics prescribes what we ought to maintain as standards or bases for moral valuation.
a. Descriptive ethics b. Normative ethics
c. Derivative ethics d. Historic ethics
18. What do you call that situation which calls for moral valuation?
a. Moral Issue b. Moral Judgment
c. Moral Decision d. Moral Dilemma
19. Boree Ngog believes that he is the master of his own life and that no one can tell him what is right and wrong.
He has?
a. Ethical egoism b. Psychological egoism
c. Subjectivism d. None of these
20. This states that one’s actions are ultimately always motivated by self-serving desire.
a. Ethical egoism b. Psychological egoism
c. Subjectivism d. None of these
21. According to Bentham, these are the ways to evaluate the pleasure in an action, except:
a. Intensity and strength of pleasure b. Duration of the experience of pleasure
c. Likelihood that pleasure will occur d. How sure are you that there will be pleasure?
22. When choosing an action, it is the chance that it is followed by sensations of the same kind.
a. Felicific Calculus b. Fecundity
c. Purity d. Utilitarianism
23. It is a respect of rights directed toward society’s pursuit for the greatest happiness of the greatest number.
a. Justice b. Utilitarianism
c. Rights d. Moral rights
24. This states that the goodness or badness of an action is based on whether it is useful in contributing to a
specific purpose for the greatest number of people.
a. Felicific Calculus b. Fecundity
c. Purity d. Utilitarianism
25. This refers to the experience of pleasure for the greatest number of persons.
a. Fecundity b. Purity
c. Utility d. Happiness
26. Kury Kung thinks that cheating is good because he believes that it is good. This is an example of:
a. Ethical egoism b. Psychological egoism
c. Subjectivism d. None of these
27. Confucian ethics enjoins that people should obey their parents and show filial piety. This is an example of
prescribing standards for moral valuation.
a. Descriptive ethics b. Normative ethics
c. Derivative ethics d. Historic ethics
28. What is that situation where you are torn to choose between two good choices?
a. Moral Issue b. Moral Judgment
c. Moral Decision d. Moral Dilemma
29. This refers to the acceptable and unacceptable ways of behaving in a given field.
a. Normative ethics b. Descriptive ethics
c. Professional ethics d. Field ethics
30. A sociologist simply studying different moral standards across cultures is an example of?
a. Descriptive ethics b. Normative ethics
c. Derivative ethics d. Historic ethics
31. When you are confronted with a choice and you choose to perform a certain action, you are experiencing?
a. Moral Issue b. Moral Judgment
c. Moral Decision d. Moral Dilemma
32. Each faith demands different actions
a. True b. False
c. Partly True d. Partly False
33. The following are propositions set forth by cultural relativism, EXCEPT:
a. Reality of differences
b. We are in no position to render judgment on someone’s practices
c. We are in no position to render judgment on our own practices
d. None of these