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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Kant's subjective argument concern?
(a) Explaining the proof that the self exists.
(b) Proving that the self is a substance.
(c) Proving that the self is a property.
(d) Explaining the faculties of understanding the self.

2. What did Kant become after attending school?
(a) Writer.
(b) Professor.
(c) Physicist.
(d) Electrician.

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

4. What are antinomies the logical fallacies of?
(a) Psychology.
(b) Philosophy.
(c) Cosmology.
(d) Theology.

5. Which of the following is true about Kant's time in school?
(a) He hated his time in school.
(b) He hated learning, but his teachers encouraged him.
(c) He enjoyed spending time with his peers.
(d) He enjoyed talking to the teachers.

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

7. What type of truth is "a square has four sides"?
(a) Rational.
(b) Synthetic.
(c) Irrational.
(d) Analytic.

8. What type of truth is one that is known before any experience?
(a) A posteriori.
(b) Analytic.
(c) A priori.
(d) Synthetic.

9. Unlike Descartes, what was Kant unwilling to draw the conclusion that he was?
(a) A property.
(b) A substance.
(c) A self.
(d) A philosopher.

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

11. Whose theories greatly influenced Kant's metaphysical system?
(a) Aristotle.
(b) Isaac Newton.
(c) Descartes.
(d) Montesquieu.

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

13. When was "Critique of Judgment" published?
(a) 1795.
(b) 1790.
(c) 1785.
(d) 1800.

14. What is described as something which exists dependently upon a substance?
(a) World.
(b) Properties.
(c) Possibilities.
(d) Self.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do phenomena represent?

2. Who did Kant believe was right about objective knowledge?

3. Where was Immanuel Kant born?

4. Which of the following is an example of antinomy?

5. According to Hume, what can reason tell us about?

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