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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does every mistake share?
(a) Attempting to go beyond the boundaries of experience.
(b) Attempting to use perspective.
(c) Attempting to make the right decision.
(d) Attempting to use conditioned knowledge.

3. Which of the following was Kant a determined opponent of?
(a) Reality.
(b) Existence of self.
(c) Self-consciousness.
(d) Rationalism.

4. For Kant to have had any possibility of objective knowledge, what must have been true?
(a) Phenomena and properties must have been casually related.
(b) Phenomena and noumena must have been closely related.
(c) Phenomena and noumena must have been casually related.
(d) Phenomena and substance must have been casually related.

5. What was described as being an object itself?
(a) Phenomena.
(b) Property.
(c) Noumena.
(d) Substance.

6. What did Descartes argue was the first and most certain piece of knowledge?
(a) One is a human being.
(b) One is an intelligent self.
(c) One is a thinking self.
(d) One has an identity.

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

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

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

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

11. For Hume to believe something, what did he need?
(a) Reason.
(b) Inferential evidence.
(c) Empirical evidence.
(d) Infallible belief.

12. What did Kant study throughout his early academic career?
(a) Philosophy.
(b) Geography.
(c) Math.
(d) A variety of disciplines.

13. Which of the following is an example of antinomy?
(a) The dog is brown. The dog has white spots.
(b) The cat eats food. The cat drinks water.
(c) The cat is gray. Another cat is also gray.
(d) The cat is on the chair. The cat is not on the chair.

14. What did Kant compare the knowledge of a soul to?
(a) Property.
(b) Noumena.
(c) Substance.
(d) Phenomena.

15. According to the ontological argument, why does God exist?
(a) A creator of the world must exist.
(b) Existence warrants perfection.
(c) Existence is a perfection.
(d) Perfection only exists in one entity.

Short Answer Questions

1. What can one assume if they consider the universe in its totality?

2. What statement sums up Descartes' certain piece of knowledge?

3. Which of the following is true about the statement of "Fido has brown spots"?

4. What is the name of the university Kant attended?

5. When was "Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals" published?

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