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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the university Kant attended?
(a) University of Koenigsberg.
(b) University of Amsterdam.
(c) Uniersity of Paris.
(d) University of New York.

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

3. What do all religious arguments collapse into, according to Kant?
(a) Cosmological arguments.
(b) Arguments from design.
(c) Ontological arguments.
(d) Historical arguments.

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

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

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

7. When was "Critique of Practical Reason" published?
(a) 1781.
(b) 1790.
(c) 1788.
(d) 1793.

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

9. What does every mistake share?
(a) Attempting to go beyond the boundaries of experience.
(b) Attempting to make the right decision.
(c) Attempting to use perspective.
(d) Attempting to use conditioned knowledge.

10. Who did Kant borrow the term 'apperception' from?
(a) Hume.
(b) Aristotle.
(c) Descartes.
(d) Leibniz.

11. What type of truth is "a square has four sides"?
(a) Irrational.
(b) Synthetic.
(c) Analytic.
(d) Rational.

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

13. What is considered to be Kant's most important work?
(a) "Critique of Pure Reason."
(b) "Critique of Practical Reason."
(c) "Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals."
(d) "Critique of Judgment."

14. What did "Critique of Practical Reason" deal with?
(a) Aesthetics.
(b) Religion.
(c) Logic.
(d) Ethics.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is described as being inaccessible to humanity?

2. Whose theories greatly influenced Kant's metaphysical system?

3. What was Kant's fundamental question of metaphysics?

4. What did Leibniz argue could allow us to know almost everything about the world?

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

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