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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Despite being dedicated to reason, which of the following described Kant?
(a) Religious.
(b) Superstitious.
(c) Illogical.
(d) Unintelligent.

2. When beginning an argument, what did Kant appeal to?
(a) The sense of intelligence.
(b) The most basic facts.
(c) The most basic sense of integrity.
(d) The most extraordinary facts.

3. What type of truth is one that is known before any experience?
(a) Synthetic.
(b) Analytic.
(c) A posteriori.
(d) A priori.

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

5. Whose philosophies did Kant revive in the distinction between practical and theoretical knowledge?
(a) Descartes.
(b) Plato.
(c) Aristotle.
(d) Hume.

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

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

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

9. Which of the following is true about the statement "Fido has brown spots"?
(a) Fido is a substance.
(b) The act of having is a substance.
(c) Spots is a substance.
(d) Brown is a substance.

10. What is described as something which exists dependently upon a substance?
(a) Properties.
(b) World.
(c) Self.
(d) Possibilities.

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

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

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

14. Which philosopher did Kant begin his arguments similar to?
(a) Plato.
(b) Leibniz.
(c) Descartes.
(d) Hume.

15. Which of the following would have best described Kant?
(a) Strict.
(b) Uncreative.
(c) Eccentric.
(d) Annoying.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to Kant, what does the notion of change imply?

3. How many times did Kant come close to marriage?

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?

5. How old was Kant when "Critique of Pure Reason" was published?

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