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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following is true about aesthetic perception?
(a) Each individual perceives beauty in the form of subjectivity.
(b) Each individual perceives an aesthetic object differently.
(c) Every beautiful object is a substance and not a property.
(d) Every beautiful object has inherent objects.

2. Which of the following would Kant agree with?
(a) Monarchy is a fundamental right of the political system.
(b) Women and men are equal.
(c) Each person has the right to determine their political leader.
(d) Freedom is a significant part of being a human being.

3. What does "Critique of Judgment" influence?
(a) The study of theology.
(b) The study of aesthetics.
(c) The study of psychology.
(d) The study of cosmology.

4. According to Kant, what does it mean to act in accordance with one's desires?
(a) Freedom.
(b) Neutrality.
(c) Freedom paradox.
(d) Surrender of sovereignty.

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

6. What are hypothetical imperatives?
(a) Statements that are unqualified.
(b) Statements that revolve around properties rather than substances.
(c) Statements that place a condition or quality imperative.
(d) Statements that are paradoxes.

7. What describes the first formulation that Kant derived?
(a) One should follow the religious Ten Commandments.
(b) One should treat others in a way that does not infringe upon their rights.
(c) One should never break the laws and mores of society.
(d) One should not act in such a way that he would not want others acting.

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

9. Which of the following describes why Kant saw beauty as objective?
(a) The judgments are correct appraisals of a unique interpretation.
(b) The judgments are all false, as aesthetics do not truly exist.
(c) The judgments are of works of art.
(d) The judgments are not of substances, but merely of properties.

10. How did Kant believe that humans see the world?
(a) As an imperative statement.
(b) As a series of insignificant actions.
(c) As a field of action.
(d) As a spectrum of experiences.

11. Why did Kant say that empirically, humans are not free?
(a) Humans must breathe and eat.
(b) Humans are controlled by God.
(c) Humans have moral laws to abide by.
(d) Humans are part of the natural world.

12. How did Kant feel about Fichte's idealism?
(a) He was an explicit opponent.
(b) He subtly hinted he was a proponent.
(c) He was an explicit proponent.
(d) He never gave an opinion about it.

13. Which of the following represented a difficulty for Kant because he wanted to classify it as practical reason?
(a) Death.
(b) Emotion.
(c) Logic.
(d) Beauty.

14. What is "You should not steal" an example of?
(a) A moral imperative.
(b) A hypothetical imperative.
(c) A categorical imperative.
(d) A formulation.

15. Following from Kant's view, what measures whether or not an action is good?
(a) Difficulty.
(b) Law-abiding.
(c) Religion.
(d) Passion behind the decision.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is not considered anti-social behavior as a result of Kant's third formulation of the categorical imperative in modern society?

2. What is the second quality of Fichte's idealism?

3. What did Kant believe the fundamental political right is?

4. Which of the following would Kant most agree with?

5. Who took the most extravagant interpretation of Kant?

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