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Ethics 101 Study Questions | Semester II AD 2023/2024

INSTRUCTIONS: Students are required to answer the following questions from their note
and prepare for the pending examination. These are multiple choice questions
(MCQs); hence, you’re required to read each question and select the most appropriate
answer.

1. Which branch of ethics concentrates on human life?

a. Ethics
b. Bioethics
c. Autonomy
2. Which of the following is not part of the principles of biomedical ethics?
a. Justice
b. Morality
c. Autonomy
3. The principles of beneficence leads us to the following except
a. Maximizing benefit
b. Minimizing the patient upkeep
c. All of these
4. Non-maleficence carries us to investigate what?
a. Minimize the risk
b. Maximize the problem
c. Escalate the harm
5. What is in consonance relative to the conscience of the physicians?
a. Morals
b. Decision-making
c. Good conscience
6. What happen when the physician disregard the rights of a patent’s legal representative
to decide for the patient?
a. Imminent risk of death
b. Not impending risk of death
c. Close at hand to risk of death
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7. When does the patient legal guardian consent is required?

a. When the subject is a juvenile
b. When the person is not a minor
c. When the subject is of age
8. What is the physician right during the principle of autonomy?
a. To liaise with the parents
b. To refuse to treat patients at will
c. To call other healthcare worker to work in is stead because of his conscience.
9. When the physicians refused to treat a patient in professional ethics, it is captioned as
what?
a. Following his/her conscience
b. Human right
c. Physician’s right
10. Why should the physician not engage in any experimentation involving species
subjects?
a. Because it violates human dignity
b. Because of instruction and medical inquiry
c. Because of medical orientation and human dignity
11. What threaten human dignity?
a. Experimentation involving species upkeep
b. Experimentation excluding human dignity
c. Experimentation involving species dignity
12. The code of ethics supports what?
a. Acquaint ship family
b. Acquaint with family and patents
c. Acquaint ship with patient
13. What is palliative care?
a. Moderating care
b. Special care

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c. Exceptional care
14. When can we give priority to non-malfeasance?
a. Death proves predictable
b. Death proves available
c. Death proves evitable
15. When should the patient be offered palliative care?
a. When they are getting better
b. When their cases are incurable
c. When they are almost better
16. Why ethics is necessary?
a. Because o morals
b. Because of complaints
c. All of these
17. According to our note, the following is mal-practice except
a. Immoral behavior
b. Criminal activities
c. Usage of drugs while outside the facility
18. To save lives, health professional should do what?
a. Behave good to patient compassion with dignity
b. Treat patients
c. Treat patient equally with care
19. Bad patients care requires what?
a. Bad morals
b. Compassionate and coordinative
c. None of these
20. How is ethics and laws interrelate?
a. Morality
b. Common social purpose
c. More toward the same direction.

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21. Who provide care for the patients in palliative care?

a. Health professionals
b. Practitioners
c. Surgeon
22. The practice in which the life of an untreatably ill patient is shortened is
A. political purpose
B. euthanasia
C. dysthanasia
23. Which statement true about professional responsibility?
A. The physician shall allowed political responsibility
B. The physician shall have interest in the employer
C. The physician shall not allow personal interest
24. When the physician refuses to respect the will of any person considered physically and
mentally capable is a violation of
A. Human right
B. Medical ethics
C. Professional confidentiality
25. All of the following are malpractice except
A. Neglecting the code of conduct
B. Criminal abortion
C. Compassionate care
26. The failure on the part of health practitioner to adequately perform their duties is
known
A. Professional ethics
B. Malpractice
C. Paramount obligation to the patient
27. The decision not to artificially prolong the death process beyond what would be the
natural process is
A. Orthothanasia

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B. Dysthanasia
C. Euthanasia
28. The principle of justice is the duty to
A. Offer more to those who have less and less to those who have more
B. Act unfairly
C. Unequally treat patient
29. The ability of children and adolescent to face problems are
A. Chronic and subjective
B. Diverse and subjective
C. Subjective and pediatric
30. The principle of biomedical ethics was firstly represented by
A. James Childress and Mark Segre
B. Tom Beauchamp and James Childress
C. Giovanni Berlinguer and Tom Beauchamp
31. The evaluation of the pediatric patient’s sense of judgment is always subjective and
may therefore be
A. Fair
B. Unfair
C. Prevail
32. Which of the following statement is true about the Hippocratic oath?
A. I will apply dietetic measures for the benefit of the employer according to my
judgment
B. I will come for the benefit of the sick
C. The patient’s family will be well taken care of
33. The artificial prolongation of the death process in a way that causes patient suffering is
called
A. Euthanasia
B. Orthothanasia
C. Dysthanasia

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34. Dying with dignity is to die with my values surrounded by the people I love. Who made
this statement?
A. Dr. Daniel Callahan
B. Elisabeth
C. James Childress
35. The only biomedical ethics principle that is not included in the hoppocratic oath is
called
A. Autonomy
B. Primum non nocere
C. Non-maleficene
36. Professional ethics attempts to achieve its purpose without state intervention because
it is
A. Guided by the patient’s family
B. Functional sectors
C. A fundamental practice accepted and learnt
37. Professional ethics for Health workers in Liberia is intended to be a guide to
A. Teachers
B. Drivers
C. Health workers
38. Biomedical emerged in the late
A. 1970
B. 1960
C. 1980
39. The following are reasons why parents are not the owners of their children except
A. Children are entitled to varying degrees of autonomy
B. Children are mature to take-care of themselves
C. The ability of children to face problems are diverse and subjective
40. In a _______ documents, the world Health Organization said that inevitably each
human life reaches its end.

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A. 1876
B. 1966
C. 1977

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