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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is described by something whose existence is not dependent upon anything else?
(a) Properties.
(b) Self.
(c) Substance.
(d) World.

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

3. What is rational psychology?
(a) The study of paranormal activity.
(b) The study of metaphysics.
(c) The study of the soul.
(d) The study of the universe.

4. 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.

5. Which of the following best describes Kant's categories of thought?
(a) Qualities of perception.
(b) Modes of understanding.
(c) Perceptions of existence.
(d) Categories of self-consciousness.

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

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

8. Which of the following did Hume deny?
(a) The existence of logic.
(b) The existence of the world.
(c) The existence of the self.
(d) The existence of ethics.

9. 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.

10. What statement sums up Descartes' certain piece of knowledge?
(a) "I exist, therefore I am."
(b) "I see, therefore I am."
(c) "I live, therefore I am."
(d) "I think, therefore I am."

11. Which of the following is described as being inaccessible to humanity?
(a) The world.
(b) The animal kingdom.
(c) Reason.
(d) Ethics.

12. Why does noumena serve a negative role in Kant's philosophy?
(a) It is logically impossible to know what role noumena play in phenomena.
(b) Kant's system does not acknowledge the existence of noumena.
(c) It is logically impossible to know what a thing is in itself.
(d) Noumena are generally negative objects.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following would have best described Kant?

2. Who did Kant borrow the term 'apperception' from?

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

4. Who began the problem of objective knowledge?

5. What was described as the appearance of objects?

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