1INCORRECT What does the branch of philosophy called metaphysics study?

A)Knowledge
B)God
C)Beauty
D)Being
2INCORRECT What does the branch of philosophy called epistemology study?
A)Knowledge
B)Being
C)Good and Bad
D)Politics
3INCORRECT What are Thales, Anaximenes and Anaximander collectively known as?
A)The Atomists
B)The Pythagoreans
C)The Milesians
D)The Particle Theorists
4CORRECT

According to Theano, what did Pythagoras claim?

A)Numbers are unreal.
B)Everything is in accordance with number.
C)Everything is made out of numbers.
D)Reality is totally material.

5INCORRECT What was the essence of reality for Heraclitus?

A)Change
B)Permanence
C)Water
D)Apeiron.
6INCORRECT What is reality according to a follower of Parmenidies?
A)One and changing.
B)One and unchanging.
C)Many and changing.
D)Many and unchanging.
7CORRECT

What is the cause of change for Empedocles?

A)Nous.
B)Condensation and rarefaction.
C)Logos.

D)Love and strife.

8CORRECT

What did Anaxagoras do?

A)He introduced the matter\mind distinction to philosophy.
B)He thought that the basic particles were indivisible.
C)He held that there were four different kinds of particles.
D)He believed that the particles were always in motion.

9INCORRECT What did the Atomists do?

A)They rejected the void.
B)They rejected determinism.
C)They believed that the basic particles were infinitely divisible.
D)They distinguished between atomic properties and relational properties.
10INCORRECT Which is a theme common to all the pre-Socratics?
A)Nothing changes.
B)Everything is made of particles.
C)The experienced world is a manifestation of a more fundamental
underlying reality.
D)True reality is unknowable.

Your Results:
The correct answer for each question is indicated by a

1 INCORRECT

What does the branch of philosophy called metaphysics study?

A)
B)
C)
D)

Knowledge
God
Beauty
Being

2 INCORRECT

What does the branch of philosophy called epistemology study?

A)
B)
C)

Knowledge
Being
Good and Bad
Politics

D)
3 INCORRECT

What are Thales, Anaximenes and Anaximander collectively known as?

A)
B)
C)
D)

The Atomists
The Pythagoreans
The Milesians
The Particle Theorists

4 INCORRECT

According to Theano, what did Pythagoras claim?

A)
B)
C)
D)
5
UNANSWERED

Numbers are unreal.

Everything is in accordance with number.
Everything is made out of numbers.
Reality is totally material.

What was the essence of reality for Heraclitus?

A)
B)
C)
D)

Change
Permanence
Water
Apeiron.

6 INCORRECT

What is reality according to a follower of Parmenides?

A)
B)
C)
D)

One and changing.

One and unchanging.
Many and changing.
Many and unchanging.

7 CORRECT

What is the cause of change for Empedocles?

A)
B)
C)
D)

Nous.
Condensation and rarefaction.
Logos.
Love and strife.

8 CORRECT

What did Anaxagoras do?

A)
B)
C)
D)

He introduced the matter\mind distinction to philosophy.

He thought that the basic particles were indivisible.
He held that there were four different kinds of particles.
He believed that the particles were always in motion.

9 CORRECT

What did the Atomists do?

A)
B)
C)

They rejected the void.

They rejected determinism.
They believed that the basic particles were infinitely divisible.

They distinguished between atomic properties and relational

D) properties.
10
INCORRECT

Which is a theme common to all the pre-Socratics?

A)
B)

Nothing changes.
Everything is made of particles.

The experienced world is a manifestation of a more fundamental

C) underlying reality.
True reality is unknowable.
D)
he correct answer for each question is indicated by a .

1CORRECT

Who is a philosopher, in the original sense of the world?

A)Someone who studies the stars and planets.
B)A person primarily interested in the truth about moral matters.
C)A lover and pursuer of wisdom, regardless of the subject matter.
D)A clever and tricky arguer.

2INCORRECT Which is a common characteristic of philosophical questions?

A)They are strictly empirical questions.
B)They involve fundamental concepts that are unavoidable by the
thoughtful person.
C)They are purely semantic questions.
D)They aren't relevant to ordinary, everyday situations.
3CORRECT

4CORRECT

Which is the branch of philosophy that studies issues concerning art and
beauty?
A)Aesthetics
B)Epistemology
C)Logic
D)Metaphysics
Which of the following branches of philosophy does not involve questions
related to values?
A)Moral
B)Metaphysics
C)Social
D)Political

5INCORRECT Which of the following is a common myth about philosophy?

A)Philosophical questions are hard to answer, and the answers often
give rise to further philosophical questions.
B)Reading philosophy in a way that makes it understandable can be hard
work.
C)Philosophy deals with important and fundamental questions left
unanswered by more specialized disciplines.
D)Philosophical questions are simply semantic disputes in which no one
opinion is any better or worse than another is.
6INCORRECT In philosophy, what is an argument?
A)A factual disagreement between people.
B)Giving reasons for a belief.
C)A shouting match.

D)Any verbal attempt to persuade.

7INCORRECT

8CORRECT

What fallacy is it when an argument attacks the person rather than the person's
beliefs?
A)Red Herring
B)Begging the Question
C)Straw Man
D)Argumentum ad Hominem
What fallacy is it when an argument assumes only two options when in fact
there are more?
A)Straw Man
B)Black or White Fallacy
C)Begging the Question
D)Appeal to Emotion

"I don't agree with Jones when she says we should wait for a trial, and I'll tell
9INCORRECT you why. I don't approve of letting someone get away with murder! That's why
I say let's hang him now!" What fallacy does this most clearly illustrate?
A)Straw Man
B)Black or White Fallacy
C)Argumentum ad Hominem
D)Red Herring
10INCORRECT What must be the case for an argument to succeed with a rational person?
A)The premises must be acceptable.
B)The conclusion must be acceptable.
C)The premises must logically support the conclusion.
D)The premises must be acceptable and they must logically support the
conclusion.
The correct answer for each question is indicated by a .
1
INCORRECT

Aristotle's primary area of interest was

A)
B)
C)
D)

moral philosophy.
metaphysics.
epistemology.
political philosophy.

INCORRECT

Which of the following is not one of the ten basic categories Aristotle used to
describe the ways in which humans think about things?
A)
B)
C)
D)

3
INCORRECT

activity
quality
weight

How many souls did Aristotle believe humans have?

A)
B)
C)
D)

4
INCORRECT

posture

one
two
three
four

Aristotle's works include all of the following except:

A)
B)
C)
D)

Confessions
Metaphysics
Poetic
Nicomachean Ethics

5 CORRECT

What is a thing, according to Aristotle?

A)
B)
C)
D)
6
INCORRECT

A specific form in a particular hunk of matter.

A hunk of matter.
A form.
A shadow of a form.

What does Aristotle mean by the efficient cause of a thing?

A)
B)
C)
D)
7
INCORRECT

What it is made of.

Where it came from.
What sort of thing it is.
What it is good for.

If you want to say what a thing is, which of Aristotle's four causes must you
provide?
A)
B)
C)
D)

The final cause.

The efficient cause.
The formal cause.
The material cause.

8 CORRECT

What did Aristotle say about all change?

A)
B)
C)
D)

It is an illusion.
It is a movement from potentiality to actuality.
It is a movement from actuality to potentiality.
It doesn't require a God.

9 CORRECT

Which of the following is an example of what Aristotle called a universal?

A)
B)
C)
D)
10
INCORRECT

The State of Indiana.

This particular piece of paper.
An atom.
The property of being red.

What is a syllogism?
A)
B)
C)

A logical fallacy.
A kind of inference.
Any group of three propositions.

A complete description of a thing.

D)
The correct answer for each question is indicated by a .
1INCORRECT What did Socrates hope to achieve by practicing the Socratic method?
A)He hoped to show that knowledge is impossible.
B)He wanted to show that a skillful debater could win any side of any
argument.
C)He wanted to display the fact that he was indeed the wisest man in all
Greece.
D)He wanted to discover adequate definitions that would give knowledge
of the essential nature of things.
2CORRECT

Where do the Forms exist, according to Plato?

A)In our heads, as ideas.
B)In physical objects.
C)In a separate, immaterial realm.
D)In the cave.

3INCORRECT How are the Forms apprehended, according to Plato?

A)By reason.
B)By the senses.
C)By intuition.
D)By mystical experience.
4INCORRECT Which would Plato have agreed with?
A)The senses alone can provide knowledge.
B)Physical objects are eternal, perfect, and unchanging.
C)Man is the measure of all things.
D)The senses are a source of error, illusion, and ignorance.
5CORRECT

Plato had three famous theories:

A)The Theory of Forms, The Theory of Knowledge, The Theory of the
Oracle.
B)The Theory of Fire and Becoming, The Tunnel Theory, The Theory of

Knowledge.
C)The Theory of Becoming, The Theory of Relativity, The Theory the
Absolute Truth.
D)The Theory of Knowledge, The Theory of Love and Becoming, The
Theory of Forms.
6INCORRECT

When the Delphi Oracle pronounced Socrates to be the wisest of people,

Socrates thought the pronouncement referred to the fact that he:
A)was aware of the ignorance of most other philosophers.
B)was aware of his own ignorance.
C)was aware of everything and nothing.
D)never wrote anything

7INCORRECT Three of Platos more enlightening and well-known dialogs are:

A)Apology, Republic and Meno
B)Republic, Apology and Love
C)Aesthetics, Knowledge and Apology
D)Apology, Republic and Nous
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