Comprehensive Quiz Questions PDF

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This document contains a quiz with multiple choice questions regarding various topics. The questions cover concepts related to health insurance, animal rights, and discussions of various ethical perspectives on topics such as the treatment of animals, and different types of justice. The questions seem to be designed for a high school or undergraduate level.

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Comprehensive Quiz Questions Question 1: The health insurance program supported jointly by the federal and individual state governments that covers some low-income families, pregnant women, families and children, and people with disabilities is named: (a) Social Security - (b) Medicai...

Comprehensive Quiz Questions Question 1: The health insurance program supported jointly by the federal and individual state governments that covers some low-income families, pregnant women, families and children, and people with disabilities is named: (a) Social Security - (b) Medicaid (c) Medicare (d) Home Health Care Question 2: Medical treatment, disease prevention, emergency care, and public health measures are collectively referred to as: - (a) Health care (b) Medicare (c) Fiduciary care (d) Managed care Question 3: Suppose your friend Sahar is an animal rights advocate for the same reasons that Peter Singer is. Sahar would most likely support: - (a) Greater production of plant-based foods (b) Meat production in foreign countries (c) A cruel but quick form of meat production (d) A humane form of meat production Question 4: When an animal is entitled to a kind of moral respect that cannot be overridden (or cannot be overridden easily), it is said to have: (a) Moral agency - (b) Rights (c) The ability to suffer (d) Impunity Question 5: In order to be logically consistent, a person who believes that animals have rights would also have to hold the view that animals have the same moral rights that humans do. (a) True - (b) False Question 6: In 2015 and 2016 in the United States alone, more than 18 billion animals, including cows, pigs, sheep, and lambs, were slaughtered for food. - (a) True (b) False Question 7: Access to adequate health care is: (a) A negative right - (b) A positive right (c) Not a right at all (d) A variable right Question 8: Egalitarian theories of justice hold that all persons have equal value and deserve equal respect and therefore have equal rights to the world's resources. - (a) True (b) False Question 9: Justice concerning the fair distribution of society's goods is called retributive justice. (a) True - (b) False Question 10: The morality of persons getting what is fair or what is their due is known as justice. - (a) True (b) False Question 11: Jus in Bello is the justice for going to war. (a) True - (b) False Question 12: One of the conditions for Jus in Bello is Last Resort. (a) True - (b) False Question 13: The liberal view of sexuality is the idea that as long as basic moral standards are respected, any sexual activity engaged in by informed, consenting adults is permissible. - (a) True (b) False Question 14: Which of the following is the best definition of the term sentience? - (a) The ability to experience pain and pleasure (b) The ability to engage in higher thought (c) The ability to reason (d) The ability to form complete sentences Question 15: Those who believe that nature possesses instrumental value only are likely to believe that a forest has value only because of its economic worth. - (a) True (b) False Question 16: Which of the following would be a relevant calculation to use in determining one's carbon footprint? (a) The average hours of sleep one gets a day (b) The annual environmental impact of one's employer - (c) The average number of miles one drives daily (d) The degree to which one wishes to prevent further damage to the environment Question 17: An anthropocentrist sees animals, plants, and ecosystems as: (a) Moral equals with humans (b) More natural than human beings (c) Means to unifying all life - (d) Means to serve the ends of human beings Question 18: Suppose you are the last human on a dead planet. Only one other living thing exists-a maple tree. You are preparing to leave the planet for good, and you are trying to decide whether you should kill the tree before departing. In the end, you decide it would be morally impermissible to kill the tree. Your reluctance to kill the tree shows that the tree has: (a) No moral status - (b) Moral status (c) Instrumental value (d) Aesthetic value Question 19: The health insurance program supported jointly by the federal and individual state governments that covers some low-income families, pregnant women, families and children, and people with disabilities is named: (a) Social Security - (b) Medicaid (c) Medicare (d) Home Health Care Question 20: Medical treatment, disease prevention, emergency care, and public health measures are collectively referred to as: - (a) Health care (b) Medicare (c) Fiduciary care (d) Managed care Question 21: Suppose your friend Sahar is an animal rights advocate for the same reasons that Peter Singer is. Sahar would most likely support: - (a) Greater production of plant-based foods (b) Meat production in foreign countries (c) A cruel but quick form of meat production (d) A humane form of meat production Question 22: When an animal is entitled to a kind of moral respect that cannot be overridden (or cannot be overridden easily), it is said to have: (a) Moral agency - (b) Rights (c) The ability to suffer (d) Impunity Question 23: In order to be logically consistent, a person who believes that animals have rights would also have to hold the view that animals have the same moral rights that humans do. (a) True - (b) False Question 24: In 2015 and 2016 in the United States alone, more than 18 billion animals, including cows, pigs, sheep, and lambs, were slaughtered for food. - (a) True (b) False Question 25: Access to adequate health care is: (a) A negative right - (b) A positive right (c) Not a right at all (d) A variable right Question 26: Egalitarian theories of justice hold that all persons have equal value and deserve equal respect and therefore have equal rights to the world's resources. - (a) True (b) False Question 27: Justice concerning the fair distribution of society's goods is called retributive justice. (a) True - (b) False Question 28: The morality of persons getting what is fair or what is their due is known as justice. - (a) True (b) False

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