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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Where was Immanuel Kant born?
(a) France.
(b) Prussia.
(c) United States of America.
(d) England.
2. Which of the following statements about Kant is true?
(a) Kant did not believe one could view one's own soul as an object.
(b) Kant believed that proving the existence of a soul would prove the existence of God.
(c) Kant believed the soul was a noumenon.
(d) Kant believed the soul was a phenomenon.
3. For Kant to have had any possibility of objective knowledge, what must have been true?
(a) Phenomena and substance must have been casually related.
(b) Phenomena and noumena must have been casually related.
(c) Phenomena and properties must have been casually related.
(d) Phenomena and noumena must have been closely related.
4. Which of the following did Hume deny?
(a) The existence of the self.
(b) The existence of ethics.
(c) The existence of the world.
(d) The existence of logic.
5. Which of the following is described as being inaccessible to humanity?
(a) The animal kingdom.
(b) Ethics.
(c) Reason.
(d) The world.
6. What is described by something whose existence is not dependent upon anything else?
(a) Substance.
(b) World.
(c) Properties.
(d) Self.
7. Whose theories greatly influenced Kant's metaphysical system?
(a) Isaac Newton.
(b) Aristotle.
(c) Descartes.
(d) Montesquieu.
8. What is the problem with Descartes' certain knowledge?
(a) It assumes that humans think.
(b) It assumes that existence warrants thinking.
(c) It assumes the existence of a self.
(d) It assumes that breathing warrants thinking.
9. Which of the following is an example of antinomy?
(a) The cat eats food. The cat drinks water.
(b) The dog is brown. The dog has white spots.
(c) The cat is on the chair. The cat is not on the chair.
(d) The cat is gray. Another cat is also gray.
10. According to the ontological argument, why does God exist?
(a) Existence warrants perfection.
(b) Existence is a perfection.
(c) A creator of the world must exist.
(d) Perfection only exists in one entity.
11. Which of the following was Kant a determined opponent of?
(a) Rationalism.
(b) Existence of self.
(c) Reality.
(d) Self-consciousness.
12. According to Kant's reply to religious arguments, what is not a predicate?
(a) Existence.
(b) Self.
(c) God.
(d) Perfection.
13. Which of the following statements about predicates is not true?
(a) Existence does not imply a predicate.
(b) The ontological argument fails.
(c) Existence is a perfection.
(d) Redness is a predicate of an apple.
14. What philosophical school did Hume belong to?
(a) Rationalism.
(b) Empiricism.
(c) Irrationalism.
(d) Extremism.
15. When did Kant die?
(a) 1810.
(b) 1800.
(c) 1809.
(d) 1804.
Short Answer Questions
1. Which of the following best describes Kant's categories of thought?
2. What did Kant study throughout his early academic career?
3. What are antinomies the logical fallacies of?
4. How old was Kant when "Critique of Pure Reason" was published?
5. When beginning an argument, what did Kant appeal to?
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