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WorksheetsMorality of Freedom & Conscience
Total questions: 30
Worksheet time: 23mins
In the opening scene of Amazing Grace, Wilberforce getting the horseman to stop beating the horse demonstrated what?
Wilberforce was an experienced horseman.
Wilberforce believed he could defend himself if the horseman became hostile.
Wilberforce wanted to buy the horse.
Wilberforce had a conscience.
In Wilberforce's nightmares, he was haunted by slaves in chains because _________.
Wilberforce felt guilty because of his past as a slavetrader.
Wilberforce's exposure to abolitionist views led him to examine his conscience.
Wilberforce feared a loss of popularity in society if his countrymen knew about his past.
Wilberforce thought he could rise higher in Parliament if he was successful in passing abolitionist legislative acts.
Of all the possible impressions Wilberforce could make for himself, he did not want to be seen or regarded as _______.
exercising subjective morality.
deliberating and choosing to do good.
having full knowledge of his actions.
having invincible ignorance.
Wilberforce refused to play a game of cards against the Duke with pot winnings including a slave because ___________.
Wilberforce playing against the Duke could lead to Wilberforce losing his seat in Parliament.
Wilberforce feared losing to the Duke could result in his responsibility to become a slaveowner.
Wilberforce knew playing with that 'pot' would result in his responsibility as a slavetrader.
Wilberforce agreeing to playing would represent ignorance.
Wilberforce said exposure to slavery - by interacting with slave owners and traders - was poisonous because _____.
Wilberforce could not claim invincible ignorance.
Wilberforce wanted to apply subjective morality.
Wilberforce did not want personal actions against slavery.
Wilberforce had slavetrader enemies who also traded in arsenic.
What did Wilberforce's butler catch Wilberforce doing on Wilberforce's own property?
Wilberforce held secret meetings with slave traders in an attempt to get them to discontinue the slave trade.
Wilberforce held secret meetings with slave owners in an attempt to get them to discontinue owning slaves.
Wilberforce exchanged slave trade documents with William Pitt.
Wilberforce prayed openly and aloud in his garden.
When hungry and homeless uninvited people came to Wilberforce's home, he instructed his butler to feed them ________.
because Wilberforce hoped to increase his popularity throughout Britain.
because Wilberforce hoped to impress the other members of Parliament.
because Wilberforce did not want culpability for a sin of omission.
because Wilberforce believed in conscientious objection.
When Wilberforce admitted his own conversion to his butler, the butler was not surprised Wilberforce found God, because ____.
Wilberforce had previously been a seminarian for the priesthood.
Wilberforce's library books revealed his Full Knowledge of right and wrong.
Wilberforce's choice of friends demonstrates a conscientious objection to Parliament.
Wilberforce had often been seen praying to overcome his evil past.
After Wilberforce wrote to his friend William Pitt to tell of Wilberforce's conversion, Pitt responded by asking his friend to join his quest to become Prime Minister because _______.
Pitt's ignorance led him to think Wilberforce would be a very popular politician in Parliament
Pitt thought he could persuade Wilberforce that his abolitionist ideas lacked prudence.
Pitt believed his friend Wilberforce needed to accept the responsibility Wilberforce's thoughts about freedom impose.
Pitt believed having an colleague in Parliament known as morally conservative would make Pitt appear more friendly by comparison.
After Pitt asked Wilberforce if Wilberforce wanted to use his beautiful "voice to praise the Lord or to change the world", Wilberforce reacted _______.
with the human act of active demonstrations against slavery.
with the human act of opening his home to feeding the hungry poor.
with the human act of discontinuing his slave ownership.
with the human act of discontinuing his slave trading.
When Equiono said that in the eyes of the slave traders and slave owners their branding slaves indicated the slaves no longer belonged to God but to the slave owners, Equiono's statement _____.
reflects his invincible ignorance.
reflects his vincible ignorance.
reflects his full knowledge of evil.
reflects his examination of conscience.
In his homeland in Africa, Equiono had been a prince; so he had the authority and responsibility to _______________.
determine what is moral truth in his nation.
be an infallible guide.
fulfill the right and obligation of a moral conscience.
determine how the natural law is applied in his nation.
Clarkson introduced his thoughts about the bondage of slavery by putting slave chains on Wilberforce's dining room table, which was _________________.
a human act reflecting evil.
a human act reflecting a lack of prudence.
a human act and a moral act.
a human act displaying subjective morality.
According to Clarkson, Wilberforce wanted to choose between politics and "God's work". Hannah Moore challenged Wilberforce to do both, and as a result ______.
disregard prudence and act more forcefully.
complete an examination of conscience.
take personal action based on his moral responsibility.
act with partial knowledge based on subjective morality.
John Newton had been Wilberforce's instructor/advisor; so when Newton told Wilberforce to make sure he was "in the world but not of the world", Newton was ___________.
warning Wilberforce about the perils of politics.
quoting sacred scripture; sharing divine revelation with Wilberforce.
insisting that Wilberforce views and actions were wrong.
speaking the words of a bitter old man.
When Wilberforce stood aboard the slaveship Madagascar and spoke to the audience standing on the dock beside it, he said all men are made to be equally free, and ______.
after smelling death, they were no longer culpable.
after smelling death, they now had vincible ignorance.
after seeing the slaveship, they now had full knowledge.
after seeing the slaveship, they were now evil.
When Wilberforce rolled out the scroll with 390,000 British citizens' signatures but only one member of Parliament calling for an end to slavery indicated ______
ignorance about slavery was widespread in Britain.
few British citizens questioned the human act of enslaving others.
the members of Parliament were acting on their own personal preferences and subjective morality.
little if any deliberation was conducted about slavery.
Because the argument for the gradual end to slavery resulted in the Slave Trade Act of 1807 and the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833, Wilberforce's friends clearly helped him ___.
become the most beloved politician among his colleagues in Parliament.
achieve fame for his acts of kindness toward the poor.
win the attention and favor of both the Thorntons and Spooner.
go from Freedom of Indifference to Freedom of Excellence.
Wilberforce and Pitt spoke privately about ______________.
prudence.
conscience.
ignorance.
deliberation.
When discussing the abolition of slavery, some detractors would also discuss the likelihood of a revolution in an attempt to ____________.
encourage conscientious objection.
encourage prudence and morality.
discourage deliberation and freedom of excellence.
discourage evil and subjective morality.
According to Wilberforce's wife, Barbara Spooner, people regain compassion after overcoming their fears, which explains why
conscientious objection was the reason slavery existed.
knowledge and deliberation lead to prudent moral acts.
subjective morality was helpful in getting slavery abolished.
an examination of conscience was not needed.
At the end of Pitt's life, Wilberforce's faith is what Pitt admired and wished he had because ______________.
Wilberforce's faith had helped Pitt become Prime Minister.
Wilberforce's faith had enabled Britain to become free from evil.
Wilberforce's faith had steered a nation from invincible ignorance to responsibility and prudence.
Wilberforce's faith had enabled him to be a successful politician and husband.
Lord Charles Fox succeeded Pitt as Prime Minister and declared Wilberforce a "great man" because __________.
Fox completed a personal examination of conscience.
Fox went from partial knowledge to full knowledge about Wilberforce.
Fox witnessed Wilberforce's role in Britain treating the human act of allowing slavery to be legal as an immoral moral act.
Fox compared Wilberforce's knowledge to the invincible ignorance of the other members of Parliament.
Henry and Marianne Thornton appeared to be bystanders, but they can be credited with __________________.
human act of feeding the poor.
human act of conscientious objection.
human act of introducing Wilberforce and Spooner.
human act of freeing slaves.
Pitt's challenge to Wilberforce to use his voice to do God's work and Newton telling Wilberforce, that Newton was haunted by 20,000 ghosts both ______________.
led to Wilberforce's conversion.
contributed to Wilberforce's moral acts.
scared and delayed Wilberforce.
had little effect on Wilberforce.
Whether one has heard the arguments for or against Assisted Suicide, the one truth we all know is that _____
it is ok and not a sin, if the person has written a contract to request it.
it is not a sin because you are only assisting; the dying person is the 'killer'.
it is not ok, because it breaks the Commandment "Thou Shall Not Kill".
if it is a sin, then it's only a venial sin.
By leaving a trust fund to establish the Nobel Peace Prize, chemist Alfred Nobel attempted to ________.
make more money by appearing to be a great guy.
lost the respect and admiration of those who favor a strong military.
hide the fact that he was the creator of the atomic bomb.
demonstrated that he knew the meaning of culpable and contrition.
When someone is put into hospice for palliative care, it is ___.
as culpable as assisting someone with suicide.
evil to put someone you claim to love in a nursing home.
a demonstration of the Freedom of Excellence.
a sign that the family will not take responsibility for the relative.
If a couple learns it's unborn baby will be born with a birth defect - like Down's Syndrome - they should know that ____.
God allows them to make their decision based on personal preference.
The unborn baby will grow up to hate and resent the parents for their lack of responsibility.
Such decisions should only be made after one has knowledge, prayed, and sought divine revelation.
this is a lose-lose situation.
If a loved one is near death and does not have a directive stating Do Not Resuscitate, then (Catholic Hospital) medical professionals will ______.
attempt to save the person's life, including putting the person on life support.
will abide by the closest family member's moral act and choices.
base medical decisions on what is believed to have been the incapacitated person's personal preference.
will deliberate and consider before making a decision.
