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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the first types of truths, according to Kant?
(a) Analytic and synthetic.
(b) False and accurate.
(c) Rational and irrational.
(d) Real and unreal.

2. Which of the following is described as being inaccessible to humanity?
(a) Ethics.
(b) The animal kingdom.
(c) The world.
(d) Reason.

3. What did "Critique of Practical Reason" deal with?
(a) Religion.
(b) Ethics.
(c) Logic.
(d) Aesthetics.

4. According to Kant, what is essential to the development of an ethical theory?
(a) Existence of soul.
(b) Existence of noumena.
(c) Existence of phenomena.
(d) Existence of God.

5. What did the "transcendental unity of apperception" begin?
(a) The understanding of "categories of thought".
(b) The study of substance versus properties.
(c) The study of subjectivity.
(d) Kant's objective argument.

6. What can one assume if they consider the universe in its totality?
(a) The universe phenomena and noumena.
(b) The universe had a beginning in time and that it did not.
(c) The universe has selves and it does not.
(d) The universe has contradictions.

7. What type of religious arguments was Kant most interested in?
(a) Arguments for church's relevance.
(b) Arguments against church's relevance.
(c) Arguments given for God's existence.
(d) Arguments against God's existence.

8. What type of truth is "a square has four sides"?
(a) Irrational.
(b) Analytic.
(c) Synthetic.
(d) Rational.

9. When beginning an argument, what did Kant appeal to?
(a) The sense of intelligence.
(b) The most extraordinary facts.
(c) The most basic facts.
(d) The most basic sense of integrity.

10. Which of the following did Hume deny?
(a) The existence of the world.
(b) The existence of logic.
(c) The existence of ethics.
(d) The existence of the self.

11. What was described as being an object itself?
(a) Substance.
(b) Noumena.
(c) Phenomena.
(d) Property.

12. What did Kant become after attending school?
(a) Professor.
(b) Writer.
(c) Physicist.
(d) Electrician.

13. What did Kant's objective argument concern?
(a) The content of synthetic a priori knowledge.
(b) The content of the self.
(c) The existence of the self outside the mind.
(d) The existence of self-consciousness.

14. What did Leibniz argue could allow us to know almost everything about the world?
(a) Religion.
(b) Objectivity.
(c) Ethics.
(d) Reason.

15. How many times did Kant come close to marriage?
(a) 1.
(b) 2.
(c) 4.
(d) 3.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the ontological argument, why does God exist?

2. According to Kant, what does identity imply?

3. What was the occupation of Kant's father?

4. What is the problem with Descartes' certain knowledge?

5. What is described as something which exists dependently upon a substance?

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