Ethics Quiz

What is your name?

1. Which term means fictional characters a writer creates by using characteristics of several people (frowned upon)?

• credibility
• ethics
• composite characters
• prior restraint

2. Which term means a system of moral principles?

• credibility
• ethics
• composite characters
• prior restraint

3. Which term means the ability to be believed and trusted?

• ethics
• composite characters
• prior restraint
• credibility

4. Which term means censorship banning publishing certain material; illegal in US except for rare circumstances?

• credibility
• ethics
• composite characters
• prior restraint

5. Which term means ability to make fair, neutral observations about people and events?

• slander
• libel
• objectivity
• In loco parentis

6. Which term means a false, damaging statement against person/group?

• slander
• libel
• objectivity
• In loco parentis

7. Which term means the legal idea that school authorities act “in place of the parent” and assume parents’ rights and duties?

• slander
• libel
• objectivity
• In loco parentis

8. Which term means printing false, malicious, or seditious information?

• slander
• libel
• objectivity
• In loco parentis

9. Which term means the idea that once a forum is created, the ideas cannot later be controlled?

• forum theory
• plagiarism
• privileged statements
• right of reply/simultaneous rebuttal