8. Impediments to responsible action include: A. Self-interest B. Fear. C. Ignorance. D. All of the above 9. An engineer who works for the interest of a company alerted the government that his company did not meet government test standards while his managers attempted to show the opposite This would be considered as: A. Violating his company's code of ethics. B. Complying with his engineering professional code of ethics. C. Violating the standard of care toward the company. D. Conflict of interest with the company's interest 10. Factual issues are: A. Always very difficult to resolve. B. Sometimes very difficult to resolve. C. Always very easy to resolve. D. None of the above 11. Maximizing good consequences and minimizing bad ones is the main philosophy of A. Utilitarianism. B. The Golden Rule. C. Respect for persons ideal D. All of the above 12. Good ethical thinking requires A. Knowing the facts. B. Getting clear about the meanings of ethical concepts. C. Reaching a common ground on the facts and ethical consideration D. All of the above. 13. When the utilitarian and respect for persons standards Icad to conflicting conclusions, it is said that we have: A. Convergence B. Difference. C. Divergence D. None of the above 14. Groupthink refers to A. Infatuation. B. Groups coming to agreement at the expense of critical thinking. C. Self-Deception D. Fear 15. According to the line drawing techniques, ethical cases may be classified as: A. Problematic paradigms. B. Positive paradigm C. Negative paradigm D. All of the above