University of Southeastern Philippines

College of Arts and Sciences

Obrero, Davao City
Midterm Exam SY 2021-2022 (Second Semester)
GE 114 – Ethics

NAME: Rey John Salazar

COURSE AND YEAR: BSEM 1ST YEAR

Multiple Choices: Direction – Choose the correct answer from the choices given. Write your answer before the number in
CAPITAL LETTER.

1. Why do we study Ethics?

a. It is a required course
b. To learn how to judge others
c. To make a stand on moral issue affecting society
d. To understand my moral compass

2. Which of the following best describes why Ethics should be studied as part of liberal education?
a. We need the course to attain our degrees.
b. We need the course in order to understand our own moral compass.
c. We need the course to make the right choices all the time.
d. We need the course to go to heaven and be saved.

3. Which of the following statements best explain Ethics?

a. A totality of moral values towards ourselves, other individuals, society and social groups, and the world around
us.
b. It upholds the standard values of people living in a certain environment.
c. It rectifies the delinquencies of society’s act and culture.
d. It guides people to the path of goodness and is a pattern of moral culture of human beings.

4. How do Ethics influence value system?

a. It guides people to act ethically, based on their ethical standards, whether it may be right or wrong.
b. It harnesses individual’s awareness of what is good or bad.
c. It develops the sense of belongingness in one’s mind.
d. It forces us to good things rather than doing what might destroy us.

5. Why is it that only human beings are ethical?

a. It is instinctive.
b. Only humans have the capacity for free oral judgment.
c. Our belief in Supreme Being taught us to be ethical.
d. It is altruistic behaviour.

6. How morality is defined?

a. Morality is considered as correct within a society.
b. It is making the right decision where there is a chance to do wrong.
c. Defining what is right and wrong for an individual or community.
d. It is where an individual has a conscious choice to make a right and ethical decision.

7. Why morality is important?

a. For us to act in accordance with the moral standards of society.
b. To do what is good and avoidance of what is wrong.
c. To relinquish our old personality and create a new version of oneself.
d. Both A and B

8. What are ethical theories?

a. Conduct that should be followed in order to have good ethical practices.
b. Rules and principles that determine right and wrong for any given situation.
c. Ancient hypothesis on how to achieve a good business practice.
d. Guidelines on how to achieve a good corporate image.

9. Which of the statements below explains best why rules or “ways of doing things” are important to social beings?
a. Rules make human beings superior creatures,
b. Rules control people to do something they do not want to do.
c. Rules make people know their place and enslave them in a way.
d. Rules make a person a productive member of society in spite of conflict.

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 10. What rules are created by the government to maintain order?
a. Commandment c. Custom
b. Etiquette d. Law

11. Which statement best explains the difference between moral standards and other rules of life?
a. Moral standards are deeply rooted due to personal choice.
b. Moral standards involve the salvation of the soul.
c. Moral standards are subject to social consequence.
d. Moral standards are taught to the person overtime.

12. Which statements below give the best description of non-moral standard?
a. It refers to our own personal beliefs.
b. It refers to beliefs that are shared by a certain number of people.
c. It refers to beliefs that are cultural in nature.
d. It refers to beliefs that are enforced by some form of punishment.

13. How do moral standards differ from other rules in life?

a. Moral standards are believed to be universal.
b. Moral standards are rules on how a person should behave around others.
c. Moral standards are policies that help with decision making.
d. Moral standards are enforced to maintain peace and order.

14. Which of the following statements best describe non-moral standards?

a. Non-moral standards are objective.
b. Non-moral standards are personal beliefs.
c. Non-moral standards vary and are dependent on how a particular group set the rules.
d. Non-moral standards help us live a moral life.

15. Which of the following best explains moral dilemma?

a. Knowing that cheating is wrong but you can cheat anyway.
b. It is about feeling guilty that you have an edge over your competitor.
c. You are faced with difficult choices but you have a moral reason for both actions.
d. These are situations that are neither right nor wrong.

16. What kind of dilemma when a person or group of persons who holds high level positions in the society faces a
morally conflicting situation wherein the entire social system is affected?
a. Personal c. structural
b. Organizational d. individual

17. Which of the following refers to our personal notion of what is right or wrong?
a. moral experience c. morality
b. moral standard d. values

18. When do you say a situation is a moral experience?

a. Participating in political rallies c. Eating healthy food
b. Watching movies d. Taking a vacation

19. Which of the following can be considered ethical?

a. Following the moral values and neglecting immorality.
b. Maintaining the codes of conduct
c. Leaving oneself behind and projects for a new self
d. Criticizing others

20. A moral dilemma is a situation where:

a. There are two or more actions that one can possibly do.
b. There is a moral reason for doing such one.
c. One cannot do all the possible actions presented since there is a need to choose only one action.
d. All of the above

21. The one doing the act is the __________.

a. Recipient of the act c. Both A and B
b. Agent d. None of these

22. How do you call this level of dilemma when a member or members of the organization is in a situation where there
is moral conflict, and the decision will potentially harm either some members of the group or the entire company,
cooperative or association?
a. Organizational c. Personal
b. Structural d. Individual

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 23. All societies have their own values system which may include____________.
a. Fundamental beliefs, which guide the manner in which they behave, think and perceive things and events.
b. The morality is based on the cultural values of every society.
c. Standards of ethical values
d. None of the above

24. What can be learned from cultural relativism?

a. It warns us about the danger of assuming that all our preferences are based on some absolute rational standard.
b. It teaches us to have an open mind.
c. A only
d. A and B

25. Which of the following would a cultural relativist NOT accept?

a. Different societies have different moral codes.
b. Individuals can be mistaken about what is morally required of them.
c. Some societies have better moral codes than others.
d. There are no objective moral standard.

26. Which of the following statements is wrong about culture?

a. Culture rewards favourable behaviour and quell undesirable conduct.
b. Cultural influence is more potent in children.
c. Culture cannot corrupt the mind.
d. Culture promotes the interests of a particular group.

27. Which of the following is false regarding cultural relativism?

a. When studying another culture, you must convert to its religious beliefs to understand its custom.
b. Something that might be taboo in your society might be perfectly acceptable in another society.
c. You should not force your own culture’s ritual onto another group.
d. People tend to be more tolerant of another culture’s custom when they learn the meaning behind them.

28. What is true about values?

a. Values are considered as absolute, existing in the mind of God as eternal ideas, as independent validities.
b. Values are considered as being an object, material or non-material.
c. Values are equated with actions.
d. All of the above

29. If cultural relativism is true, what happens when the moral code of a society changes?
a. Such changes always indicate moral progress.
b. Such changes only rarely indicate moral progress.
c. Such changes never indicate moral progress.
d. It is impossible for a society’s moral code to change.

30. Which of following statements best define cultural relativism?

a. A guideline explaining that one society cannot impose its views and standard on another.
b. The highest ranking for the group’s most cherished customs and values.
c. A cultural group’s desire to pass on its values to the next generation.
d. An anthropologist’s fanciest way of saying “culture”

31. What statement below best describes the danger of cultural relativism?
a. Social reforms are questionable therefore, social progress is not possible.
b. Since the manana habit is known as a Filipino trait, it is wrong to criticize a Filipino for procrastinating with their
tasks.
c. Different societies have different moral codes.
d. Our moral view and consequently, our behaviour may reflect our own cultural prejudices.

32. In school (before the pandemic), most students come late. You too, go to school and you do not see
anything wrong in it because everybody is coming to school late anyway. Which is your norm of morality?
a. Fear c. Authority
b. Shame d. Group thinking

33. When a manufacturer engages in the production of pirated CD’s, which people’s right does he violate?
a. Right to engage in business c. copyright
b. Intellectual property right d. lawful income

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 34. Which of the following refers to the attitude wherein a society’s customs and ideas should be viewed within the
context of that society’s problems and opportunities?
a. Barbarism c. Colonial Mentality
b. Ethnocentrism d. Cultural relativism

1. We could no longer
say that the customs
of other societies are
morally
inferior/superior to

What if
cultural
relativism
were true

2. We could decide
whether our actions 3. The idea of moral
are right or wrong progress is called into
just by consulting the doubt
standards of our
society
Figure 1

a. We would have to stop condemning other societies merely because they are “different.”
b. All one need to do is ask whether the action is in accordance with the code of one’s society.
c. Usually, we think that at least some social changes are for the better,
d. None of the above

35. Using the choices above, what does #1 mean? A.

36. With the choices above, which statement #3 connotes? C.
37. From the same choices above, what do you think #2 means? B..
38. Which of the following values and characters is unlikely Filipino?
a. Hospitable c. Bayanihan
b. Respectful d. Love for money

39. Which of the following is a complex symbol of system that enables human beings to communicate?
a. Beliefs c. Symbol
b. Language d. Values

40. Which is true about Filipinos?

a. Filipinos are kind-hearted people as shown in our personality being hospitable.
b. The love for family and friends
c. Filipinos have a cheerful and fun-loving approach to life and its ups and downs
d. All of the above

41. Lack of patriotism or an active awareness, lack of appreciation and love of the Philippines, and the actual preference
for things foreign are the weaknesses of the Filipinos. This statement is a dimension of
Filipino’s________________.
a. Colonial mentality c. Push-down mentality
b. Crab mentality d. Colony mentality

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 42. It is a technique of reciprocity or debt of gratitude to others within the family circle or primary group, sometimes
unlimited in nature, emotional rather than financial or rational.
a. Utang na loob c. Pakikipagkapwa
b. Pakikisama d. Hiya

43. A folk concept of good public relations and avoidance of conflict with the leader or majority of the groups.
a. Utang na loo c. Pakikiramay
b. Pakikisama d. Hiya

44. A common expression among Filipinos on the fatalistic outlook and strong dependence on the “spirits” who will
take care of everything.
a. Bahala na c. Utang na loob
b. Authoritarianism d. Pakikisama

45. Which idiomatic expression characterizes the Filipino’s lack of discipline?

a. Ningas cogon c. Kanya-kanya syndrome
b. Bahala na attitude d. extreme personalism

46. Why is freedom crucial in making decision?

a. So that you will not commit a crime.
b. Only a free person can understand the meaning of his or her life.
c. Freedom results to peace and prosperity.
d. It is our basic human right.

47. Which of the statements below does not describe freedom?

a. Freedom is the ability to make significant choices.
b. Self-direction is a characteristic of freedom.
c. Freedom is absolute.
d. Freedom has no responsibility

48. Which is the most important perceived need and problem of the Filipino family?
a. Proneness to vices c. Double standard on the roles of male and females
b. Unemployment or financial problem d. overprotectiveness of children

49. Which of the following is a standard of behaviour upheld by members of an organization for the purpose of attaining
goals and uniformity of behaviour?
a. Policy c. Norms
b. Etiquette d. Law

50. Which trait of Filipino character is noticeable in our willingness to take risks and work in other countries?
a. Hard work and industry c. Pakikipagkapwa tao
b. Family orientation d. Joy and humor

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