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

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

3. When did Kant publish "Prolegomena to any Future metaphysic which shall lay Claim to being a Science"?
(a) 1780.
(b) 1783.
(c) 1776.
(d) 1790.

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

5. What type of truth is "Fido has brown spots"?
(a) Synthetic.
(b) A priori.
(c) Analytic.
(d) A posteriori.

Short Answer Questions

1. For Kant, what was moral law based on the idea of?

2. To Kant, what was being free?

3. Which of the following made it a rare occurrence for Kant to attend school?

4. Which of the following was Kant a determined opponent of?

5. For Kant to have had any possibility of objective knowledge, what must have been true?

(see the answer key)

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