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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Kant call it when one beholds an aesthetic object?
(a) Foul play.
(b) Subjective play.
(c) Objective play.
(d) Free play.

2. What is always overlaid with concepts, according to the reading?
(a) Objectivity.
(b) Beauty.
(c) Subjectivity.
(d) Normal perceptions.

3. What did Kant permit the government to engage in?
(a) Money laundering.
(b) Capital punishment.
(c) Over-taxing.
(d) Coercion.

4. Why didn't Kant advocate democracy?
(a) He didn't think men should be able to control others.
(b) He didn't think all were qualified to vote.
(c) He didn't think all should hold office.
(d) He did not like the concept of political parties.

5. How did Kant relate his philosophical beliefs with his political beliefs?
(a) They were far removed from each other.
(b) His politics had influenced his philosophy.
(c) His politics and philosophy were so interwoven it was impossible to tell which was which.
(d) Philosophy had influenced his politics.

6. Which of the following describes a categorical imperative?
(a) A "would" statement.
(b) Substance rather than property.
(c) Completely unqualified.
(d) Morally ambiguous.

7. What is the insatiable goal of almost all philosophers?
(a) To know everything.
(b) To confirm existence.
(c) To know all real and rational beings.
(d) To know what is unknowable.

8. What was Kant's key to law?
(a) Agreement of his contemporaries.
(b) Ensuring the safety of the people.
(c) Consent of the people.
(d) Advocacy of all submitting to the law.

9. During what historical period was Kant considered well-known and influential?
(a) European Wars.
(b) European Crusades.
(c) European Enlightenment.
(d) American settlement.

10. Before Kant could ground an ethical theory, what did he first have to resolve?
(a) Paradox freedom.
(b) Hypothetical imperatives.
(c) Neutrality.
(d) Categorical imperatives.

11. Which of the following would Kant most agree with?
(a) Politics and aesthetics are heavily related.
(b) Aesthetics are objective and subjective.
(c) Beauty is not in the eye of the beholder.
(d) Aesthetics are only objective when the judged item is a piece of art.

12. What did Schopenhauer take for granted from Kant's philosophy?
(a) Proof of the soul's existence.
(b) Unreality of perception.
(c) Argument from design.
(d) Lack of proof of existence of noumena.

13. According to Hegel, how did his subject of study build?
(a) Through self-improvement.
(b) Through self-consciousness.
(c) Through self-existence.
(d) Through self-destruction.

14. According to Kant, how many people perceive the same aesthetic object the same way?
(a) One pair.
(b) Nobody.
(c) One person and God.
(d) Hundreds.

15. How did Kant view acting in accordance with one's actions?
(a) It was neutral.
(b) It was bad.
(c) It was good.
(d) It was unethical.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Kant say that empirically, humans are not free?

2. How did Kant believe that humans see the world?

3. What describes the third formulation of Kant's categorical imperative?

4. In the ideal aesthetic case, what is one moved by?

5. What was one of the last topics Kant addressed before his death?

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