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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do phenomena represent?
(a) Real objects.
(b) Irrational beings.
(c) Rational beings.
(d) Self-consciousness.

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

3. Which of the following would have best described Kant?
(a) Annoying.
(b) Uncreative.
(c) Strict.
(d) Eccentric.

4. What type of truth is something that is known only as the result of some experience?
(a) Analytic.
(b) A priori.
(c) Synthetic.
(d) A posteriori.

5. What is described by something whose existence is not dependent upon anything else?
(a) World.
(b) Self.
(c) Substance.
(d) Properties.

6. Unlike Descartes, what was Kant unwilling to draw the conclusion that he was?
(a) A philosopher.
(b) A self.
(c) A substance.
(d) A property.

7. When was "Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals" published?
(a) 1800.
(b) 1785.
(c) 1795.
(d) 1790.

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

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

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

11. When was "Critique of Practical Reason" published?
(a) 1793.
(b) 1781.
(c) 1788.
(d) 1790.

12. In which groups did "Critique of Pure Reason" cause a stir?
(a) Asian philosophical circles.
(b) African philosophical circles.
(c) American philosophical circles.
(d) European philosophical circles.

13. What did "Critique of Judgment" deal with?
(a) Logic.
(b) Ethics.
(c) Aesthetics.
(d) Religion.

14. What did Kant say is a privileged place in perception?
(a) Relativism.
(b) The past.
(c) The present.
(d) The future.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Scruton, Kant was the first philosopher since whom to place a significant emphasis on aesthetics?

2. What did "Critique of Practical Reason" deal with?

3. According to Kant, why was he reserved?

4. Which type of argument about religion did Kant believe had little weight?

5. Despite being dedicated to reason, which of the following described Kant?

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