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WorksheetsGE 310 Ethics Prelim Examination
Total questions: 55
Worksheet time: 28mins
Ethics is derived from the Greek word ________.
Ethis
Ethos
Etheos
None of the above
Ethics cover the following dilemma except for ____________.
How to live a good life
The language of right and wrong
Our rights and responsibilities
None of the above
It deals with the nature of moral judgement. It looks at the origins and meaning of ethical principles.
Normative ethics
Applied ethics
Meta-ethics
None of the above
It is concerned with the content of moral judgements and the criteria for what is right or wrong.
Normative ethics
Applied ethics
Meta-ethics
None of the above
It looks at controversial topics like war, animal rights and capital punishment.
Normative ethics
Applied ethics
Meta-ethics
None of the above
Ethics eliminate confusion and clarify the issues.
Ethics can provide a moral map
Ethics can pinpoint a disagreement
Ethics doesn’t give the right answers
None of the above
Ethics provides a framework that we can use to find our way through difficult issues.
Ethics can provide a moral map
Ethics can pinpoint a disagreement
Ethics doesn’t give the right answers
None of the above
Ethics doesn't always show the right answer to moral problems.
Ethics can provide a moral map
Ethics can pinpoint a disagreement
Ethics doesn’t give the right answers
None of the above
Using the framework of ethics, two people who are arguing a moral issue can often find that what they disagree about is just one particular part of the issue, and that they broadly agree on everything else.
Ethics can provide a moral map
Ethics can pinpoint a disagreement
Ethics doesn’t give the right answers
None of the above
It is a situation where a person is forced to choose between two or more conflicting options, neither of which is acceptable.
Rules
Dilemma
Ethics
Moral
It is a branch of philosophy that involves the systematizing, defending and recommending the concepts of right and wrong conduct.
Rules
Dilemma
Ethics
Moral
Which of the following is not true about ethics?
Ethics seeks to resolve questions of human morality.
Ethics improves decision-making.
Ethics brings short-term gains to individuals.
None of the above
It is a situation where a person is forced to choose between two or more conflicting options, neither of which is acceptable.
Moral dilemma
Moral standards
Non-moral actions
None of the above
_______ often forces the individual to decide which option an individual can live with, but any outcomes are extremely unpleasant no matter what.
Moral dilemma
Moral standards
Non-moral actions
None of the above
It is a situation in which a person is torn between right and wrong and looks at the very core of a person’s principles and values.
Moral dilemma
Moral standards
Non-moral actions
None of the above
In this type of dilemma, the moral agent can hardly choose between the conflicting moral requirements.
Ontological dilemma
Epistemic dilemma
Self-imposed dilemma
World imposed dilemma
This dilemma involves situations wherein two or more moral requirements conflict with each other and that the moral agent hardly knows which of the conflicting moral requirements takes precedence over the other.
Ontological dilemma
Epistemic dilemma
Self-imposed dilemma
World imposed dilemma
This dilemma is created by the agent's own errors in judgment.
Ontological dilemma
Epistemic dilemma
Self-imposed dilemma
World imposed dilemma
This dilemma involves situations wherein two or more moral requirements conflict with each other, yet neither of these conflicting moral requirements overrides each other.
Ontological dilemma
Epistemic dilemma
Self-imposed dilemma
World imposed dilemma
This type of dilemma is caused by circumstances outside the agent’s control.
Ontological dilemma
Epistemic dilemma
Self-imposed dilemma
World imposed dilemma
In this type of dilemma, the moral agent here does not know which option is morally right or wrong.
Ontological dilemma
Epistemic dilemma
Self-imposed dilemma
World imposed dilemma
In this type of dilemma one option must be better than the other; only, it needs fuller knowledge of the situation.
Ontological dilemma
Epistemic dilemma
Self-imposed dilemma
World imposed dilemma
Which of the following is not true about the Filipino culture?
It is the summation of indigenous forces and foreign influences.
Customs reflect the people’s faith, their oneness with other, affinity with nature and their celebration in life.
Chinese, Malay and Spanish are just a few of the races that run in the veins of every Filipino.
None of the above
Which country influenced the Philippines in terms of religion and festivities?
America
Spain
China
Japan
Filipinos have positive outlook, a sense of humor, and strong fighting spirit.
Joyful
Hospitable
Respectful
God-fearing
This is the most common terminology that describes how Filipinos welcome foreigners or tourists who visit the country.
Joyful
Hospitable
Respectful
God-fearing
Filipinos are known for our smiles that can warm the hearts of anyone. They have an innate sense of happiness and even find humor in problems.
Joyful
Hospitable
Respectful
God-fearing
Filipinos belong to different religious groups but they all have God in the center.
Joyful
Hospitable
Respectful
God-fearing
It is a folk concept of good public relations and avoidance of conflict with the leader or majority of the group.
Utang na loob
Pakikisama
Amor-propio
Resourcefulness
Filipinos are talented and highly creative. They can make fashion instruments out of kitchen utensils, and could solve problems at a snap of a finger.
Utang na loob
Pakikisama
Amor-propio
Resourcefulness
It is a technique of reciprocity of debt of gratitude to others.
Utang na loob
Pakikisama
Amor-propio
Resourcefulness
Filipinos get along with different kinds of people. They can easily adjust to any situation and are flexible.
Utang na loob
Pakikisama
Amor-propio
Resourcefulness
Being oppressed by various colonizers for such a long time made our ancestors defiant of the rules they believed to be discriminatory; thus, creating a mentality of “self-righteous disobedience.”
Mañana habit
Bahala na
Crab mentality
Lack of discipline
This trait shows a sense of duty and responsibility. Filipinos know how to repay other people. When someone helped us, we return the favors with goodness.
Utang na loob
Pakikisama
Amor-propio
Resourcefulness
Roughly translated as “come what may”, this is the Filipinos’ own version of fatalism, the belief of trusting in Divine providence or leaving everything to the hands of fate.
Mañana habit
Bahala na
Crab mentality
Lack of discipline
Filipinos devote so much of their time gossiping and back-biting. It is their way of deviating people’s attention on their inadequacy by focusing on other people’s faults.
Mañana habit
Bahala na
Crab mentality
Lack of discipline
This is the Filipino habit of leaving for tomorrow what can be done today. They tend to postpone their actions for a later time thus reducing accomplishments.
Mañana habit
Bahala na
Crab mentality
Lack of discipline
Filipinos are fond of saying “bukas na lang” or “sa susunod na lang” due to laziness. This arises from a slack mentality that a problem will eventually go away by itself.
Mañana habit
Bahala na
Crab mentality
Lack of discipline
Some Filipinos have the nerve to crash into wedding parties uninvited or show up at a birthday party because they were brought along by a friend of an invited friend.
Gossipmongers
Freebie hunters
Treating OFWs as ATMs
Excessive partying
Filipinos have this penchant of disregarding the rules in order to prioritize what they want.
Mañana habit
Bahala na
Crab mentality
Lack of discipline
Filipinos’ own unique brand of time, which is known to be minutes or hours behind the scheduled or standard time.
Ningas-kugon
Colonial mentality
Corruption
Filipino time
It is the patronizing foreign instead of local brands, favoring foreign values over our own, and even desiring to look more “Western”.
Ningas-kugon
Colonial mentality
Corruption
Filipino time
Filipinos initially exhibit great enthusiasm at the beginning of a project. Our eagerness however, fades away just as quickly as the fire is extinguished, leaving our work either half- baked or unfinished.
Ningas-kugon
Colonial mentality
Corruption
Filipino time
Some Filipinos are overly dependent on relatives working overseas that they don’t look for jobs.
Gossipmongers
Freebie hunters
Treating OFWs as ATMs
Excessive partying
This is also referred to as the “Bayanihan”, Filipinos help one another when their fellowmen need them.
Camaraderie
Ability to survive
Strong family ties
None of the above
Filipinos value their families so much that they tend to be so intact.
Camaraderie
Ability to survive
Strong family ties
None of the above
Despite grinding poverty, many Filipinos survive. They can even make a livelihood from garbage dumps.
Camaraderie
Ability to survive
Strong family ties
None of the above
A person who habitually passes on confidential information or spreads rumors.
Gossipmongers
Freebie hunters
Treating OFWs as ATMs
Excessive partying
This theory holds that "existence itself is miraculous, that life contains elements of wonder that can never be defined or eradicated by physical science."
Consequentialism
Supernaturalism
Virtue Ethics
None of the above
This is concerned with what people do, not with the consequences of their actions.
Contextualism
Character-based ethics
Duty-based ethics
Consequentialism
This is based on two principles: (1) Whether an act is right or wrong depends only on the results of that act and (2) the better consequences an act produces, the better or more right that act.
Consequentialism
Supernaturalism
Virtue Ethics
None of the above
_______ ethics are usually what people are talking about when they refer to 'the principle of the thing'.
Character-based
Deontological
Results-based
Supernaturalism
This theory makes ethics depend on God.
Consequentialism
Supernaturalism
Virtue Ethics
None of the above
Duty based ethics is also called as _______.
Character-based
Deontological
Results-based
Supernaturalism
________ not only deals with the rightness or wrongness of individual actions, it provides guidance as to the sort of characteristics and behaviours a good person will seek to achieve.
Consequentialism
Supernaturalism
Virtue Ethics
None of the above
