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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What do phenomena represent?
(a) Real objects.
(b) Rational beings.
(c) Self-consciousness.
(d) Irrational beings.

3. Where was Immanuel Kant born?
(a) France.
(b) United States of America.
(c) England.
(d) Prussia.

4. When Kant attempted to use the unity of apperception to prove facts about the world, who admitted that these arguments were not generally philosophically sound?
(a) Descartes.
(b) Hume.
(c) Scruton.
(d) Kant.

5. What is considered to be Kant's most important work?
(a) "Critique of Practical Reason."
(b) "Critique of Pure Reason."
(c) "Critique of Judgment."
(d) "Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals."

6. What are physic-theological arguments?
(a) Cosmological arguments.
(b) Ontological arguments.
(c) Arguments against the existence of God.
(d) Arguments from design.

7. What did Kant have published before 1781?
(a) "Critique of Pure Reason".
(b) Nothing.
(c) A few unremarkable, short books.
(d) "Critique of Judgment".

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

9. Where was David Hume from?
(a) France.
(b) England.
(c) Ireland.
(d) Scotland.

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

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

12. What is the name of the philosopher who wrote Meditations?
(a) Kant.
(b) Hume.
(c) Descartes.
(d) Leibniz.

13. When did Kant die?
(a) 1800.
(b) 1809.
(c) 1804.
(d) 1810.

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

15. How many times did Kant come close to marriage?
(a) 1.
(b) 2.
(c) 4.
(d) 3.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What type of truth is "Fido has brown spots"?

3. What is described as something which exists dependently upon a substance?

4. When did Kant publish "Prolegomena to any Future metaphysic which shall lay Claim to being a Science"?

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

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