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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How did Kant feel about monarchy?
(a) He did not like monarchy but accepted it as the freest form of government.
(b) He encouraged a monarch as a figurehead ,but with a parliament to back them.
(c) He did not trust monarchy.
(d) He thought that a monarchy was the strongest type of government.

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

4. To Kant, what was being free?
(a) Being able to understand paradox.
(b) Being able to obey one's reason.
(c) Being able to have ideas.
(d) Being able to assess the self.

5. What does the judgment of beauty require?
(a) Deliberation.
(b) Background information.
(c) One's sense.
(d) Intermediate concepts.

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

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

8. Which argument did Kant refuse to take as solid philosophical demonstration?
(a) Descartes' argument that God exists.
(b) Aristotle's ethical philosophies.
(c) Hypothetical imperatives.
(d) The argument for design.

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

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

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

12. What describes the third formulation of Kant's categorical imperative?
(a) One should obey the law.
(b) One should act as if his actions were legislating a law.
(c) One should treat others as they wish to be treated.
(d) One should treat others with respect.

13. What is the second quality of Fichte's idealism?
(a) Subjective.
(b) Analytic.
(c) Synthetic.
(d) Objective.

14. What type of government did Kant favor?
(a) Anarchy.
(b) Dictatorship.
(c) Monarchy.
(d) Republicanism.

15. What was the reason Kant's "Critique of Judgment" did not fail?
(a) Exploring an uncharted topic.
(b) Interesting points.
(c) Well-written.
(d) Strong arguments.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Hegel want to determine builds?

2. Which of the following is true about subjectivity?

3. Which philosophers, besides Kant, studied aesthetics?

4. What are imperative statements?

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

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