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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which of the following did Kant approach in a curious way?
(a) Emotions.
(b) Logic.
(c) Ethics.
(d) Laws.

3. In an aesthetic situation that is not ideal, how does one judge?
(a) Through a process of thought.
(b) Deliberately.
(c) Logically.
(d) Immediately.

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

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

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

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

8. In the ideal aesthetic case, what is one moved by?
(a) The properties of a substance.
(b) Raw sensory experience.
(c) The inner-workings of a mechanism.
(d) Perception of a person.

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

10. What does the paradox freedom highlight a contradiction between?
(a) Transcendental philosophy and universal philosophy.
(b) Universal law of causality and categorical imperatives.
(c) Hypothetical imperatives and categorical imperatives.
(d) Sense of freedom and universal law of causality.

11. What type of judgment is beauty?
(a) Deliberate.
(b) Immediate.
(c) Reactionary.
(d) Substantiary.

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

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

14. 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?
(a) Drunk driving.
(b) Theft.
(c) Murder.
(d) Begging for money on the streets.

15. According to Kant, what should the government seek to do?
(a) Hide government doings from the content public.
(b) Seek to make the people as happy as possible.
(c) Maintain or increase amount of society's freedom.
(d) Reduce society's freedom.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is always overlaid with concepts, according to the reading?

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

3. What did Kant believe must be true for an action to be good?

4. When judging beauty, what does the mind apply?

5. What did Kant call it when one beholds an aesthetic object?

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