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Quiz about Do The Ends Justify The Means

Do The Ends Justify The Means? Quiz

This is an interesting philosophical question. Here are a few illustrations of the problem in a variety of places.

A multiple-choice quiz by robert362. Estimated time: 6 mins.

Author
robert362

Time
6 mins

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Multiple Choice

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176,913

Updated
Dec 03 21

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Question 1 of 10

1. In "M*A*S*H*" (the tv series), one of the doctors operates on a healthy offficer (under a pretext of possible appendicitis); he does this in order to save the lives of soldiers by preventing that officer from leading men into combat. Which of the doctors objects to this on moral grounds? Hint

Potter

Hawkeye

B.J.

Winchester

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Question 2 of 10

2. In "Fail Safe", the President of the U.S. (as played by Henry Fonda in the movie), offers to destroy a major U.S. city in order to maintain some degree of "balance" during the Cold War with the Soviet Union. Which city? Hint

Washington D.C.

New York

San Francisco

Boston

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Question 3 of 10

3. In "Mildred Pierce" and "Stella Dallas", mothers make sacrifices for their daughters. Joan Crawford plays Mildred; who plays Stella? Hint

Olivia de Havilland

Lana Turner

Barbara Stanwyck

Bette Davis

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Question 4 of 10

4. In an episode of the "Twilight Zone", a soldier rejects the use of black magic as a method of winning the war. What war is it? Hint

World War I

American Revolution

World War II

American Civil War

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Question 5 of 10

5. In "36 Hours", German Rod Taylor tries to trick American James Garner in order to get him to reveal certain information. What information? Hint

The location of captured treasure

Details of a plan to kill Hitler

The location of the D-Day invasion

Details of a plot to kidnap Churchill

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Question 6 of 10

6. In "Star Trek" (the original series), actor Karidian was really an infamous man named Kodos. What crime was Kodos guilty of committing? Hint

Murder

Corruption

Blackmail

Robbery

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Question 7 of 10

7. In which novel does one man kill a friend in order to save that friend from a more brutal end? Hint

Picture of Dorian Gray

The Trial

Les Miserables

Of Mice and Men

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Question 8 of 10

8. "(W)e hated to kill (but) our country owed all its troubles to him ..." About whom were these words written? Hint

Napoleon Bonaparte

Julius Caesar

Abraham Lincoln

Adolf Hitler

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Question 9 of 10

9. In which play does a psychiatrist wonder about the virtue of curing a disturbed patient (because the return to "normal" will rob the patient of a great ecstasy and passion)? Hint

The Bad Seed

The Dark at the Top of the Stairs

I Never Sang For My Father

Equus

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Question 10 of 10

10. In "On The Waterfront", the director was (indirectly) making a statement about the "virtue" of "naming names" to the House Unamerican Activities Committee. Who was the director? Hint

Lewis Milestone

Billy Wilder

Elia Kazan

John Huston

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

Answer: B.J.

Hawkeye operates. B.J. objects, saying that cutting into a healthy body is "mutilation".

Answer: New York

When a U.S. bomber gets through and devastates Moscow, Fonda offers to obliterate New York City in an effort to prevent a nuclear showdown with the Soviets.

3. In "Mildred Pierce" and "Stella Dallas", mothers make sacrifices for their daughters. Joan Crawford plays Mildred; who plays Stella?

Answer: Barbara Stanwyck

Crawford is willing to take the rap for a murder that was committed by her daughter; Stanwyck backs away from her motherhood in an attempt to secure greater happiness for her daughter. (Lana Turner in "Madam X" could also fit into this category.)

4. In an episode of the "Twilight Zone", a soldier rejects the use of black magic as a method of winning the war. What war is it?

Answer: American Civil War

Gary Merrill stars as a Confederate soldier who stumbles upon some black magic and has to struggle with the implications of using it.

5. In "36 Hours", German Rod Taylor tries to trick American James Garner in order to get him to reveal certain information. What information?

Answer: The location of the D-Day invasion

Garner is drugged and made to appear older so that he will believe that the war has ended. In that state, he will "casually" make reference to the place of the invasion. Clever idea.

6. In "Star Trek" (the original series), actor Karidian was really an infamous man named Kodos. What crime was Kodos guilty of committing?

Answer: Murder

Kodos killed some so that others might live. (Similarly, Kirk allows Joan Collins to die in "the City of the Edge of Forever" so that countless others will not die as a result of a delayed U.S. entry into WW II.)

7. In which novel does one man kill a friend in order to save that friend from a more brutal end?

Answer: Of Mice and Men

In Steinbeck's novel, George kills Lenny "mercifully", so that Lenny will not suffer crueler punishment by his pursuers.

8. "(W)e hated to kill (but) our country owed all its troubles to him ..." About whom were these words written?

Answer: Abraham Lincoln

This is an excerpt from the diary of John Wilkes Booth.

9. In which play does a psychiatrist wonder about the virtue of curing a disturbed patient (because the return to "normal" will rob the patient of a great ecstasy and passion)?

Answer: Equus

The psychiatrist struggles with his ambivalent feelings about this issue in Peter Shaffer's play.

10. In "On The Waterfront", the director was (indirectly) making a statement about the "virtue" of "naming names" to the House Unamerican Activities Committee. Who was the director?

Answer: Elia Kazan

In the movie, Brando "stools" on Lee J. Cobb, waterfront boss. In real life, Kazan lost a lot of friends for "stooling" to the HUAC.

Source: Author robert362

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