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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II: Chapter 6, Degrees of Testability.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does information about precision come from?
(a) Examining concrete information.
(b) Examining objective information.
(c) Examining assumed information.
(d) Examining ranges.

2. What ties down fundamental ideas?
(a) Constructs.
(b) Contradictions.
(c) Rules.
(d) Conventions.

3. Natural laws are in a form to negate what type of statements?
(a) Singular.
(b) Universal.
(c) Proven.
(d) Existential.

4. Also referred to as singular statements, what are subsets of events?
(a) Sub-events.
(b) Occurrences.
(c) Post events.
(d) Situations.

5. What does Popper suggest is not psychological?
(a) Objectivism.
(b) Subjectivism.
(c) Observability.
(d) Existentialism.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of content is considered valuable according to Popper?

2. What should the rules of epistemology adhere to?

3. What is directly linked to falsification?

4. Popper feels the principle of causality is not falsifiable and therefore regards it as what?

5. What has a limited utility in comparing falsifiers?

(see the answer key)

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