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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following represented a difficulty for Kant because he wanted to classify it as practical reason?
(a) Beauty.
(b) Death.
(c) Logic.
(d) Emotion.

2. Kant's "Critique of Judgment" is considered to be which of the following?
(a) Disorganized and unclear.
(b) Strongly argued but disorganized.
(c) Concise and clear.
(d) Concise and focused.

3. Following from Kant's view, what measures whether or not an action is good?
(a) Law-abiding.
(b) Difficulty.
(c) Religion.
(d) Passion behind the decision.

4. Which of the following is an unfortunate reality that Kant took into account?
(a) Most people are unintelligent.
(b) Most people are not rational.
(c) Most people are poor.
(d) Most people do not want to vote.

5. What did Kant permit the government to engage in?
(a) Money laundering.
(b) Capital punishment.
(c) Coercion.
(d) Over-taxing.

6. What was Kant's basic political belief?
(a) One can never do anything to harm the government or country's image.
(b) One can do anything they would like as long as they are faithful to the church's orders.
(c) One can be creatively free but otherwise conservative.
(d) One can do anything they would like as long as they do not interfere with another's freedom.

7. Which of the following is true about aesthetic perception?
(a) Every beautiful object is a substance and not a property.
(b) Each individual perceives an aesthetic object differently.
(c) Every beautiful object has inherent objects.
(d) Each individual perceives beauty in the form of subjectivity.

8. Which of the following is true about the idealism Fichte wanted to justify?
(a) It was radical.
(b) It was classical.
(c) It was based on Plato's work.
(d) It was based on Descartes' work.

9. Which of the following would Kant most agree with?
(a) Beauty is not in the eye of the beholder.
(b) Aesthetics are only objective when the judged item is a piece of art.
(c) Aesthetics are objective and subjective.
(d) Politics and aesthetics are heavily related.

10. To Kant, what was being free?
(a) Being able to understand paradox.
(b) Being able to assess the self.
(c) Being able to obey one's reason.
(d) Being able to have ideas.

11. Whose philosophies presaged existentialism in many ways?
(a) Schopenhauer.
(b) Descartes.
(c) Fichte.
(d) Hegel.

12. What describes the first formulation that Kant derived?
(a) One should follow the religious Ten Commandments.
(b) One should treat others in a way that does not infringe upon their rights.
(c) One should not act in such a way that he would not want others acting.
(d) One should never break the laws and mores of society.

13. For Kant, what was moral law based on the idea of?
(a) Autonomy.
(b) Paradox.
(c) Hypothetical imperatives.
(d) Neutrality.

14. During what historical period was Kant considered well-known and influential?
(a) European Enlightenment.
(b) American settlement.
(c) European Wars.
(d) European Crusades.

15. What did Kant want to require of each law?
(a) Each person "will" approve of it.
(b) Each person "would" approve of it.
(c) Each person "should" approve of it.
(d) Each person "could" approve of it.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of sense did Kant have when contemplating natural objects?

2. What is the statement "If you want to make a lot of money, you should go to college"?

3. What did Kant refer to in order to solve the problem buried below ethical theory?

4. What did Kant believe the fundamental political right is?

5. How did Kant believe that humans see the world?

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