QUIZ COMPARATIVE ETHICS II (10%)

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1) The term ethics, derived from the Greek word ethos is synonymous with ‘moral’
and both are indicative of customs, habits and accepted ways of behavior of an
individual or a community. (True/False)
2) The study of ethics therefore provides the platform for the determination of human
actions that are right from those that are wrong. (True/False)
3) Ethics analyzes and evaluates human actions and provides justifying reasons form
our approval or rejection of such actions. (True/False)
4) As a principle, ethics permits the performance of certain actions judged to be moral
or right, and presents same to us by way of obligations, while at the same time
condemning and restraining us from performing those actions judged to be wrong
and a moral. (True/False)
5) Terms such as right, wrong, good, bad, virtuous, and sinful, ought, duty, obligation,
all belong to the purview of morality. (True/False)
6) Ethics as a discipline is chiefly concerned with the analyzing, evaluating and
developing of criteria for dealing with moral problems. (True/False)
7) Ethics is basically concerned with the nature of human behavior and social
approval. (True/False)
8) Morality tries to provide answers to questions such as ‘how are men supposed to
behave’,‘how are men behaving and why’, what is man’s ultimate destiny and how
does that influence his behavior’, what is considered the good life for man’ among
many others.
(True/False)
9) Ethics and ethical are often used synonymously with morals and morality and they
connote customs, habits and accepted ways of behavior of an individual or a
community. (True/False)
10) Ethical is concerned with the question of right and wrong in human behavior
dealing with how men ought to behave and why it is wrong to behave in some
ways and right to behave in some other ways. (True/False)
11) The purpose of ethics is to help answer the ‘how should I live’ question for
 humanity. (True/False)
12) Morality meant to help guide human conduct and answer certain moral questions
that apply to all normal human beings as well as help humanity to better to
conform the norms of morality. (True/False)
13) Ethics can be classified into two, classical ethics and modern ethics. (True/False)
14) The inseparability school of thought on the other hand holds that ethics and
religion cannot be said to belong to different categories, rather both should be
seen as being one and hence inseparable. (True/False)
15) Ethics and religion are both concerned human behavior hence they are given to
the prescription of standards of human behavior. (True/False)
16) Religion is actually a perspective to morality. That is, it provides an incentive for
obeying the moral law and recommends punishment for violators of the law.
(True/False)
17) Ethics does not deal with nature on the sub-human level, at least not directly and
centrally; ethics is not one of the natural sciences, but rather a spiritual science.
(True/False)
18) Ethics is a normative discipline that spans a wide jurisdiction cutting across all
other disciplines. (True/False)
19) Ethics is therefore concerned with this deviation for the purposes of
condemnation or justification. (True/False)
20) Normative ethics then is the study of ethical theory itself; it is ethics’ own
reflection on itself judging the success or failure of self as moral theory.
(True/False)