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

2. When was "Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals" published?
(a) 1790.
(b) 1785.
(c) 1800.
(d) 1795.

3. Where was David Hume from?
(a) Scotland.
(b) Ireland.
(c) France.
(d) England.

4. What did "Critique of Judgment" deal with?
(a) Religion.
(b) Aesthetics.
(c) Logic.
(d) Ethics.

5. Which of the following statements about Kant is true?
(a) Kant believed the soul was a noumenon.
(b) Kant believed that proving the existence of a soul would prove the existence of God.
(c) Kant did not believe one could view one's own soul as an object.
(d) Kant believed the soul was a phenomenon.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Kant, why was he reserved?

2. What did Kant study throughout his early academic career?

3. What is rational psychology?

4. What did Descartes argue was the first and most certain piece of knowledge?

5. How old was Kant when "Critique of Pure Reason" was published?

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