1: What I Know About Ethics.

Exercise 2: Multiple Choice Test

Directions: Answer the following questions and encircle the letter of the correct answer.

1. What word is derived from the Greek word a is thesis which means sense ‟or  feeling ‟and refers to the judgements of personal approval or disapproval that we make about what we see, hear, smell, or taste?

1. a. thesis
2. b. anesthesis
3. c. aesthetics
4. d. antithesis

1. It is a term used to refer to specific beliefs or attitudes that people have or to describe acts that people perform.

1. a. morals c. ethics
2. b. values d. behaviours

1. This is the term used to refer to the discipline of studying and understanding ideal human behaviours and ideal ways of thinking.

1. a. ethics c.behaviours
2. b. morals d.values

1. A study of ethics reports how people, particularly groups, make their moral valuations without making any judgement either for or against these valuations. This kind of study is often the work of social scientists, either a historian or a sociologist or anthropologist.

1. a. normative study of ethics
2. b. philosophical discussion of ethics
3. c. descriptive study of ethics
4. d. oundations of ethics

1. The study of ethics, as is often done in philosophy or moral theology, engages the question: What could or should be considered as the right way of acting? In other words, it prescribes what we ought to maintain as our standards or bases for moral valuation.

1. a. foundations of ethics
2. b. descriptive study of ethics
3. c. philosophical discussion of ethics
4. d. normative study of ethics

1. When one is placed in a situation and confronted by the choice of what action to perform, that person is called to make.

1. a. moral issue
2. b. moral dilemma
3. c. moral judgement
4. d. moral decision

1. When one is torn between choosing one of the two goods or choosing between the lesser of two evils, that person is said to have.

1. a. moral issue
2. b. moral dilemma
3. c. moral judgement
4. d. moral decision

1. When one cannot afford a certain item, but then the possibility presents itself for that person to steal that item, that person is said to have a.

1. a. moral issue
2. b. moral dilemma
3. c. moral judgement
4. d. moral decision

1. When a person is an observer who makes an assessment of the actions or behaviours of someone, that person is making a.

1. a. moral issue
2. b. moral dilemma
3. c. moral judgement
4. d. moral decision

1. Which of the following is NOT a source of authority?

1. a. Law
2. b. Culture
3. c. Religion
4. d. Social Media

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