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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5: The Categorical Imperative.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Kant, what does identity imply?
(a) Reality.
(b) Rationality.
(c) Causality.
(d) Substance.

2. Who did Kant borrow the term 'apperception' from?
(a) Leibniz.
(b) Hume.
(c) Aristotle.
(d) Descartes.

3. Which of the following made it a rare occurrence for Kant to attend school?
(a) His economic class.
(b) His maturity.
(c) His age.
(d) His faith.

4. What was Kant's fundamental question of metaphysics?
(a) How the self can be conscious.
(b) How analytic a priori knowledge is possible.
(c) How existence is possible.
(d) How synthetic a priori knowledge is possible.

5. Kant believed that what was at the root of all morality?
(a) A 'will' statement.
(b) A single categorical imperative.
(c) A single hypothetical imperative.
(d) A 'could' statement.

Short Answer Questions

1. Before Kant could ground an ethical theory, what did he first have to resolve?

2. For Hume to believe something, what did he need?

3. According to Scruton, Kant was the first philosopher since whom to place a significant emphasis on aesthetics?

4. What is the category for something considered to be trivially true?

5. What was the occupation of Kant's father?

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