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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3: The Transcendental Deduction.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following made it a rare occurrence for Kant to attend school?
(a) His maturity.
(b) His faith.
(c) His age.
(d) His economic class.

2. How old was Kant when "Critique of Pure Reason" was published?
(a) 57.
(b) 32.
(c) 26.
(d) 45.

3. What was a result of "Critique of Reason" being difficult to read?
(a) Kant translated and re-released his work.
(b) Kant released a supplemental work.
(c) Kant had another philosopher translate it.
(d) Kant became angry and insulted his readers.

4. What question did Kant's subjective argument begin with?
(a) What are the self's prerequisites for existence?
(b) What are the prerequisites for experience?
(c) How can philosophers define existence?
(d) How can experience be defined?

5. What was Kant's fundamental question of metaphysics?
(a) How existence is possible.
(b) How the self can be conscious.
(c) How analytic a priori knowledge is possible.
(d) How synthetic a priori knowledge is possible.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the "transcendental unity of apperception" begin?

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

3. What philosophical school did Leibniz belong to?

4. What did Kant's subjective argument concern?

5. Which of the following is described as being inaccessible to humanity?

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