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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. For Hume to believe something, what did he need?
(a) Infallible belief.
(b) Inferential evidence.
(c) Empirical evidence.
(d) Reason.

2. Which of the following is described as being inaccessible to humanity?
(a) Ethics.
(b) Reason.
(c) The world.
(d) The animal kingdom.

3. What type of truth is something that is known only as the result of some experience?
(a) Synthetic.
(b) Analytic.
(c) A posteriori.
(d) A priori.

4. What distinguishes a person from the rest of existence?
(a) Contradictions.
(b) Self-consciousness.
(c) Rational will.
(d) Psychology.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was described as being an object itself?

2. What was described as the appearance of objects?

3. What is cosmology?

4. How did Kant view acting in accordance with one's actions?

5. When did Kant die?

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