The Story of Philosophy Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

Mid-Book Test (up to Immanuel Kant and German Idealism)

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

Multiple Choice Questions

Directions: Circle the correct answer.

1. What does Aristotle teach at the Lyceum?
a) physical and mental training
b) biology and natural sciences
c) athletics and mathematics
d) the socratic Method

2. What does Kant call knowledge that is independent of sense-experience and whose truth is certain before experience?
a) necessary and non-experiential
b) evolution of concepts
c) the original sense of connoting sensation
d) a priori

3. At what age does Plato advocate taking children from their parents to avoid learning bad habits?
a) at adolescence
b) age ten
c) at birth
d) age three

4. What does the King of Syracuse learn that causes him to cancel his invitation to Plato to organize Utopia? (read more)