Test Bank for Ethics for the Information Age, 9th Edition Quinn (All Chapters included)
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2.Introduction to Ethics
3.Networked Communications
4.Intellectual Property
5.Information Privacy
6.Privacy and t...
Ethics for the Information Age
9th Edition by Michael J. Quinn
Complete Chapters Test Bank
are included (Ch 1 to 10)
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, Table of contents
1.Catalysts for Change
2.Introduction to Ethics
3.Networked Communications
4.Intellectual Property
5.Information Privacy
6.Privacy and the Government
7.Computer and Network Security
8.Computer Reliability
9.Professional Ethics
10.Work and Wealth
, Multiple-choice Questions
For each of the following questions, choose the letter of the one best response.
Chapter 1
The two principal catalysts for the Information Age have been
a) books and pamphlets.
b) computers and communication networks. <
c) radio and television.
d) newspapers and magazines.
e) smartphones and cable television networks.
Which of the following was not a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic?
a) Billions of people around the world experienced lockdown.
b) Students living in homes without high-speed Internet access were disadvantaged.
c) Millions of people began working from home for the first time.
d) Concerns about governmental overreach led to the invention of cryptocurrencies. <
e) Meeting through Zoom became much more popular.
Which statement best supports the conclusion that society can control whether to adopt a new
technology?
a) About half of all email messages are spam.
b) Despite decades of research, fusion power is an elusive goal.
c) People do not have to listen to Howard Stern if they do not want to.
d) Some new technologies are simply too expensive to even consider adopting.
e) After the accident at Three Mile Island, 67 nuclear reactor construction projects were
canceled. <
Tablets, abacuses, and manual tables
a) are no longer used, because of the proliferation of calculators and computers.
b) are examples of aids to manual calculating. <
c) were developed in Western Europe in the late Middle Ages.
d) replaced Hindu-Arabic numerals as the preferred way to do calculations.
e) All of the above
The mechanical adding machines of Pascal and Leibniz were not widely adopted because
a) they were too expensive.
b) there were unreliable. <
c) they were too difficult to program.
d) they could not handle fractions.
e) bookkeepers successfully lobbied the King, and he made the machines illegal.
The calculating machine of Georg and Edvard Sheutz
a) computed the values of polynomial functions.
b) typeset the results of its computations.
c) performed calculations faster than they could be done manually.
d) performed calculations more reliably than could be done manually.
e) All of the above. <
, Which of the following phrases does not describe the Gilded Age in the United States?
a) Rapid industrialization
b) Economic expansion
c) Widespread electrification <
d) Concentration of corporate power
e) Corporate mergers
Which of the following was not a result of the adoption of mechanical calculators?
a) Less demand for “superstars” who could rapidly compute sums by hand
b) Higher productivity of bookkeepers
c) Higher salaries of bookkeepers <
d) Proliferation of companies making calculators
e) Feminization of bookkeeping
Which of the following was not a feature of cash registers in the early 1900s?
a) Ability to compute total of purchases
b) Ability to print itemized receipts for customers
c) Ability to print log of transactions for owners
d) Ability to compute amount of change to give customer <
e) Ability to ring a bell every time cash drawer is opened
Punched card tabulation was invented by Herman Hollerith when he was an employee of
a) the Pennsylvania Railroad.
b) the Census Bureau. <
c) the Pennsylvania Steel Company.
d) the Burroughs Adding Machine Company.
e) IBM.
Which of the following phrases best describes a machine that inputs data, performs one or more
calculations, and produces output data?
a) Manual calculator
b) Digital computer
c) Data-processing system <
d) Difference engine
e) Cash register
The first commercial electronic digital computers were produced just after
a) the Spanish-American War.
b) World War I.
c) World War II. <
d) the Korean War.
e) the Vietnam War.
Programming languages were developed in order to
a) make it possible to program computers in English.
b) make programming faster and less error prone. <
c) speed translations between English and Russian during the Cold War.
d) improve the computation speed of computers, which were very expensive.
e) All of the above
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