Alberto Moraquestion 7The Term Ethics Quiz

QUESTION 1

5. A theme in this book is the contradiction between formal codes of ethics and __________.

   	a.	subcultures
   	b.	unethical people
   	c.	criminal impulses
   	d.	individuals

   QUESTION 2

   1. According to the text, relativism is the most pervasive ethical system used in the war on terror.

      True False

   QUESTION 3

   1. According to the text, ultimately ethics is about facing a(n) _______________ and making a decision.

   QUESTION 4

   1. In the case of _______________ the Supreme Court unanimously decided that police must obtain a warrant in order to search an arrestee’s cell phone .

   QUESTION 5

   1. In the case of _______________, the U.S. Supreme Court held that detainees in Guantanamo could challenge their detention in U.S. federal courts, a petition known as habeas corpus.

      	a.	Clark v. Martinez
      	b.	Rasul v. Bush
      	c.	Hamdan v. Rumsfeld
      	d.	Hamdi v. Rumsfeld

   QUESTION 6

   2. Who conducted the investigation of Abu Ghraib?

      	a.	John McCain
      	b.	Edward Snowden
      	c.	Antonia Taguba
      	d.	Alberto Mora

      QUESTION 7

      1. The term means–end thinking is used to describe a utilitarian principle that justifies a bad action if it produces a _______

      QUESTION

      1. You are a colonel in the U.S. Army, responsible for running an Afghanistan prison that houses captured Taliban and al-Qaeda soldiers.
         A newly captured soldier is found to be in possession of documents that indicate an imminent operation targeting American soldiers. Traditional interrogation of the soldier has not yielded any results, and you are concerned that lives will be lost if the captive soldier cannot be made to reveal what he knows about the imminent attack. Believing that time is running out, you consider authorizing the use of brutality in order to hopefully extract the information before lives are lost. Your dilemma is known as:

         	a.	the Dirty Harry problem.
         	b.	the principle of double effect.
         	c.	“just means.”
         	d.	the Jack Bauer solution.

         QUESTION 9

         1. You are the police chief in a large American city. Prior to 9/11, your city’s crime rates had been declining steadily, due in part to a commitment to community-oriented policing.
            Your department discovered a local resident meeting with a suspected intelligence officer from a foreign nation operating in your city. Your department is planning a joint operation with the FBI to investigate, and it is decided that a wiretap would be appropriate. Because the resident is a U.S. citizen, the wiretap must be approved by:

            	a.	the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.
            	b.	no court approval is needed, as long as the FBI is officially part of the investigation.
            	c.	the Federal Circuit Court with jurisdiction over your city.
            	d.	the Supreme Court.

            QUESTION 10

            1. ________________ is the ethical justification for all the counter-terrorism measures discussed in the text.

               	a.	Distributive justice
               	b.	Retribution
               	c.	Libertarianism
               	d.	Utilitarianism