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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Leibniz argue could allow us to know almost everything about the world?
(a) Reason.
(b) Ethics.
(c) Objectivity.
(d) Religion.

2. What did "Critique of Judgment" deal with?
(a) Logic.
(b) Aesthetics.
(c) Ethics.
(d) Religion.

3. What type of perception does 'apperception' refer to?
(a) Perception of a substance.
(b) Perception of a property.
(c) Perception of the self.
(d) Perception of a group of people.

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

5. What are the statements "Fido is on the couch" and "Fido is not on the couch" examples of?
(a) Property.
(b) Cosmology.
(c) Antinomy.
(d) Substance.

6. Why was Kant's system revolutionary?
(a) It asserted the existence of synthetic a posteriori truths.
(b) It asserted the existence of analytic a posteriori truths.
(c) It asserted the existence of synthetic a priori truths.
(d) It asserted the existence of analytic a priori truths.

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

8. Which of the following is true about Kant's time in school?
(a) He enjoyed spending time with his peers.
(b) He hated learning, but his teachers encouraged him.
(c) He enjoyed talking to the teachers.
(d) He hated his time in school.

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

10. What question did Kant's subjective argument begin with?
(a) How can experience be defined?
(b) What are the prerequisites for experience?
(c) What are the self's prerequisites for existence?
(d) How can philosophers define existence?

11. What was described as the appearance of objects?
(a) Noumena.
(b) Phenomena.
(c) Property.
(d) Substance.

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

13. What is the category for something considered to be trivially true?
(a) Rational truth.
(b) Synthetic truth.
(c) Analytic truth.
(d) Real truth.

14. According to Kant, what is essential to the development of an ethical theory?
(a) Existence of noumena.
(b) Existence of soul.
(c) Existence of God.
(d) Existence of phenomena.

15. When did Kant publish "Prolegomena to any Future metaphysic which shall lay Claim to being a Science"?
(a) 1776.
(b) 1780.
(c) 1783.
(d) 1790.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is cosmology?

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

3. What did Kant have published before 1781?

4. Which of the following statements about Kant is true?

5. According to Hume, what does all knowledge come through?

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