MMC3203 QUIZES EXAM QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS GRADED A+ 2025/2026
MODULE ONE
Charles Peirce said we "fix our beliefs" in four hierarchal ways: tenacity, authority, intuition, and
science.
a. True
b. False - ANS a. True
MODULE ONE
The ability to make ethical decisions based on your own careful thinking is known as:
a. ad hoc moralizing
b. moral autonomy
c. rules-based ethics
d. moral pragmatism
e. ethical absolutism - ANS b. moral autonomy
MODULE ONE
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, When someone resolves an ethical problem by offering specific, narrow, and dogmatic advice
rather than thoughtful analysis of the problem, then that person is relying on:
a. moral philosophy
b. intuition
c. science
d. moralizing
e. pseudoscience - ANS d. moralizing
MODULE ONE
When a journalist reports a story that includes quotes from sources about the sources' opinions
of right and wrong, she is doing what kind of ethics?
a. meta-ethics
b. descriptive ethics
c. ad hoc ethics
d. applied ethics
e. visceral ethics - ANS b. descriptive ethics
MODULE ONE
Which of the following of Peirce's "ways of knowing" is the most primitive or basic?
a. science
b. authority
c. tenacity
d. intuition - ANS c. tenacity
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AND ANSWERS GRADED A+ 2025/2026
MODULE ONE
Charles Peirce said we "fix our beliefs" in four hierarchal ways: tenacity, authority, intuition, and
science.
a. True
b. False - ANS a. True
MODULE ONE
The ability to make ethical decisions based on your own careful thinking is known as:
a. ad hoc moralizing
b. moral autonomy
c. rules-based ethics
d. moral pragmatism
e. ethical absolutism - ANS b. moral autonomy
MODULE ONE
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, When someone resolves an ethical problem by offering specific, narrow, and dogmatic advice
rather than thoughtful analysis of the problem, then that person is relying on:
a. moral philosophy
b. intuition
c. science
d. moralizing
e. pseudoscience - ANS d. moralizing
MODULE ONE
When a journalist reports a story that includes quotes from sources about the sources' opinions
of right and wrong, she is doing what kind of ethics?
a. meta-ethics
b. descriptive ethics
c. ad hoc ethics
d. applied ethics
e. visceral ethics - ANS b. descriptive ethics
MODULE ONE
Which of the following of Peirce's "ways of knowing" is the most primitive or basic?
a. science
b. authority
c. tenacity
d. intuition - ANS c. tenacity
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