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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Popper feel is a fruitless exercise?
(a) Naming universal things.
(b) Naming singular things.
(c) Naming metaphysical things.
(d) Naming logical things.

2. What is important to Popper's argument for a logic of science?
(a) Theories.
(b) Universal statements.
(c) Singular statements.
(d) Potential falsifiers.

3. What must be maintained in at each level of the experimental process?
(a) Integrity of testability.
(b) Auxiliary hypotheses.
(c) Systems of theories.
(d) Methods.

4. Statements that are not testable serve what purpose?
(a) Suggest a problem.
(b) Validate previous experience.
(c) Judge science.
(d) They serve no purpose.

5. What does Popper fear philosophers will think about methodological investigations?
(a) They do not belong to philosophy.
(b) There is no substance in them.
(c) They do not work.
(d) They contradict years of thought.

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

7. What confuses the distinction between universal and individual names?
(a) Existential statements.
(b) Negative statements.
(c) Theoretical statements.
(d) Symbolic logic.

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

9. In order to be true statements of science, what characteristic must these statements have?
(a) They are logical.
(b) They are proven.
(c) They are objectively testable.
(d) They have been tested.

10. What type of rule do positivists and reductionists adhere to, according to Popper?
(a) Rules of Psychology.
(b) Non-logical rules.
(c) Dogmatic rules.
(d) Logical rules.

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

12. What type of reasoning, according to Popper, is not rational?
(a) Deductive.
(b) Testable.
(c) Inductive.
(d) Scientific.

13. How does Popper investigate the chain of logical reasoning?
(a) Identifying trends.
(b) Understanding metaphysics.
(c) Breaking it into steps.
(d) Relying of previous research.

14. What guides a scientific experiment?
(a) Theory.
(b) Logic.
(c) Inductive reasoning.
(d) Deductive reasoning.

15. For a theory to be falsifiable, what must it prohibit?
(a) At least one occurrence.
(b) Conventionalism.
(c) Logic.
(d) Previous theories.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the concept of simplicity a part of according to Popper?

2. What depends on both universal and singular statements?

3. What type of hypotheses does Popper warn against?

4. What type of reasoning does Popper deny exists?

5. What is the reproducible effect which refutes a theory?

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