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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What food was used as an example to imply the unchanged existence of some medium?
(a) Tomato.
(b) Carrot.
(c) Potato.
(d) Apple.

2. What philosophical school did Hume belong to?
(a) Extremism.
(b) Empiricism.
(c) Irrationalism.
(d) Rationalism.

3. What did Kant compare the knowledge of a soul to?
(a) Phenomena.
(b) Property.
(c) Noumena.
(d) Substance.

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

5. What is cosmology?
(a) The study of people.
(b) The study of the soul.
(c) The study of the universe.
(d) The study of God.

6. What is theology?
(a) The study of the soul.
(b) The study of God.
(c) The study of people.
(d) The study of the universe.

7. What do phenomena represent?
(a) Rational beings.
(b) Irrational beings.
(c) Self-consciousness.
(d) Real objects.

8. Who began the problem of objective knowledge?
(a) Aristotle.
(b) Plato.
(c) Hume.
(d) Descartes.

9. What did Kant study throughout his early academic career?
(a) A variety of disciplines.
(b) Math.
(c) Geography.
(d) Philosophy.

10. What was described as the appearance of objects?
(a) Substance.
(b) Property.
(c) Noumena.
(d) Phenomena.

11. 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 synthetic a priori knowledge is possible.
(d) How existence is possible.

12. What is the name of the philosopher who wrote Meditations?
(a) Hume.
(b) Kant.
(c) Descartes.
(d) Leibniz.

13. What is considered to be Kant's most important work?
(a) "Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals."
(b) "Critique of Judgment."
(c) "Critique of Pure Reason."
(d) "Critique of Practical Reason."

14. What did Kant's objective argument concern?
(a) The content of synthetic a priori knowledge.
(b) The existence of self-consciousness.
(c) The content of the self.
(d) The existence of the self outside the mind.

15. What did Kant say is a privileged place in perception?
(a) Relativism.
(b) The present.
(c) The past.
(d) The future.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following truths is considered to be more substantive?

2. According to Kant, why was he reserved?

3. Which of the following is true about Kant's time in school?

4. What did Leibniz argue could allow us to know almost everything about the world?

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

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