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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II: Chapter 3, Theories.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For what purpose are methodological rules developed?
(a) Protect demarcation.
(b) Falsity demarcation.
(c) Question demarcation.
(d) Wholly prove demarcation.

2. What does Popper consider existential statements to be?
(a) Tautological.
(b) Concrete.
(c) Logical.
(d) Metaphysical.

3. From what does methodological rule differ?
(a) Rules of truth.
(b) Rules of science.
(c) Rules of sustainability.
(d) Rules of logic.

4. What does Popper say methodological rules are?
(a) Testable.
(b) Irrelevant.
(c) Conventions.
(d) Keys to understanding.

5. What deductive tests determine if a theory is a scientific advance?
(a) Internal consistency.
(b) Empirical applications.
(c) Investigations.
(d) Comparing theories.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does deductive reasoning begin?

2. To what does Popper equate critical thinking?

3. What types of statements are scientific theories?

4. What depends on both universal and singular statements?

5. From what does a theoretical system arise?

(see the answer key)

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