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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7: Enlightenment and Law.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. According to Hume, what does all knowledge come through?
(a) Senses.
(b) Logic.
(c) Reason.
(d) Experience.

3. What is the problem with Descartes' certain knowledge?
(a) It assumes the existence of a self.
(b) It assumes that breathing warrants thinking.
(c) It assumes that existence warrants thinking.
(d) It assumes that humans think.

4. What type of perception does 'apperception' refer to?
(a) Perception of the self.
(b) Perception of a substance.
(c) Perception of a group of people.
(d) Perception of a property.

5. Who did Kant believe was right about objective knowledge?
(a) Both Leibniz and Hume were half right.
(b) Descartes.
(c) Leibniz.
(d) Hume.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was "Critique of Judgment" published?

2. What was one of the last topics Kant addressed before his death?

3. What type of truth is something that is known only as the result of some experience?

4. Which of the following describes a categorical imperative?

5. What was described as being an object itself?

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