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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which type of argument about religion did Kant believe had little weight?
(a) Ontological arguments.
(b) Arguments from design.
(c) Scientific arguments.
(d) Cosmological arguments.

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

4. What did Kant's objective argument concern?
(a) The existence of self-consciousness.
(b) The content of synthetic a priori knowledge.
(c) The content of the self.
(d) The existence of the self outside the mind.

5. When was "Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals" published?
(a) 1785.
(b) 1800.
(c) 1790.
(d) 1795.

6. According to Kant's reply to religious arguments, what is not a predicate?
(a) Existence.
(b) Perfection.
(c) Self.
(d) God.

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

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

9. What philosophical school did Leibniz belong to?
(a) Extremists.
(b) Syntheticists.
(c) Rationalists.
(d) Noumenalists.

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

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

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

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

14. What philosophical school did Hume belong to?
(a) Irrationalism.
(b) Empiricism.
(c) Rationalism.
(d) Extremism.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What food was used as an example to imply the unchanged existence of some medium?

2. What does every mistake share?

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

4. What type of truth is "a square has four sides"?

5. What type of truth is something that is known only as the result of some experience?

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