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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What was the occupation of Kant's father?
(a) Blacksmith.
(b) Harness maker.
(c) Scientist.
(d) Writer.
2. What is rational psychology?
(a) The study of the universe.
(b) The study of paranormal activity.
(c) The study of the soul.
(d) The study of metaphysics.
3. What was Kant's fundamental question of metaphysics?
(a) How the self can be conscious.
(b) How synthetic a priori knowledge is possible.
(c) How analytic a priori knowledge is possible.
(d) How existence is possible.
4. Whose theories greatly influenced Kant's metaphysical system?
(a) Montesquieu.
(b) Aristotle.
(c) Isaac Newton.
(d) Descartes.
5. What was described as being an object itself?
(a) Property.
(b) Substance.
(c) Noumena.
(d) Phenomena.
6. What did Kant have published before 1781?
(a) A few unremarkable, short books.
(b) Nothing.
(c) "Critique of Judgment".
(d) "Critique of Pure Reason".
7. What are antinomies the logical fallacies of?
(a) Theology.
(b) Psychology.
(c) Cosmology.
(d) Philosophy.
8. Which of the following did Kant establish?
(a) Reality is a small aspect of perception.
(b) Perception is related to the world.
(c) The self is simply a perception.
(d) Perception is irrelevant to philosophy.
9. Who did Kant believe was right about objective knowledge?
(a) Hume.
(b) Descartes.
(c) Leibniz.
(d) Both Leibniz and Hume were half right.
10. According to Kant, why was he reserved?
(a) It was necessary to be intelligent.
(b) It was necessary for a philosophical lifestyle.
(c) It was necessary to avoid getting hurt.
(d) He worked too hard to have relationships.
11. How many times did Kant come close to marriage?
(a) 1.
(b) 2.
(c) 3.
(d) 4.
12. Which of the following statements about Kant is true?
(a) Kant did not believe one could view one's own soul as an object.
(b) Kant believed that proving the existence of a soul would prove the existence of God.
(c) Kant believed the soul was a phenomenon.
(d) Kant believed the soul was a noumenon.
13. Whose philosophies did Kant revive in the distinction between practical and theoretical knowledge?
(a) Aristotle.
(b) Plato.
(c) Hume.
(d) Descartes.
14. Which of the following is true about the statement "Fido has brown spots"?
(a) Brown is a substance.
(b) The act of having is a substance.
(c) Spots is a substance.
(d) Fido is a substance.
15. What does every mistake share?
(a) Attempting to use conditioned knowledge.
(b) Attempting to make the right decision.
(c) Attempting to use perspective.
(d) Attempting to go beyond the boundaries of experience.
Short Answer Questions
1. What did "Critique of Practical Reason" deal with?
2. What philosophical school did Hume belong to?
3. What type of truth is something that is known only as the result of some experience?
4. Which of the following was Kant a determined opponent of?
5. What is cosmology?
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