Questions for Qualifying Exam:

Philo101:

1. The word Philosophy came from the Greek words philos and sophia. What does sophia mean?
a. Love
b. Truth
c. Wisdom
d. Life
2. Who is the father of ancient Greek Philosophy?
a. Thales
b. Anaximander
c. Aristotle
d. Plato
3. Who is the teacher of Plato?
a. Aristotle
b. Thales
c. Zeno
d. Socrates
4. What is the school that Plato founded?
a. Lyceum
b. Athens
c. Academy
d. Acropolis
5. Who is the father of modern Philosophy?
a. St. Thomas
b. St. Augustine
c. Rene Descartes
d. Zeno
6. What is the English translation of Cogito Ergo Sum?
a. I think therefore I am.
b. I am therefore I think
c. I’ll be therefore I become
d. I think therefore I eat
7. What is the school that Aristotle founded?
a. Lyceum
b. Athens
c. Academy
d. Acropolis
 8. According to Aristotle, it is a tool that is used for knowing and explaining the truth.
a. Organon
b. Heart
c. Coure
d. Sense
9. What is another term for the question and answer method developed in ancient Philosophy?
a. Aristotelian Method
b. Platonic Method
c. Socratic Method
d. Philosophical Method
10. It is the branch of Philosophy that is concerned with correct reasoning?
a. Metaphysics
b. Ethics
c. Epistemology
d. Logic

Philo 103

1. Who said that man is his soul?

a. Socrates
b. Plato
c. Aristotle
d. Protagoras
2. Socrates said that the soul is the seat of man’s intellectual and ______ activity.
a. Emotional
b. Rational
c. Ethical
d. Lingual
3. What is the faculty of man that allows him to search for truth?
a. Will
b. Intellect
c. Freedom
d. Heart
4. Plato said that the body is a prison or _____ of the soul.
a. Paradise
b. Tomb
c. Sanctuary
d. Castle
 5. It is our faculty that gives us the power of choice.
a. Reason
b. Intellect
c. Will
d. Emotion
6. It is also known as self-worth.
a. Human Dignity
b. Freedom
c. Confidence
d. Bank account
7. It is the principle of activity according to Aristotle.
a. Instinct
b. Appetite
c. Soul
d. Emotion
8. The word Homo sapiens means what?
a. Wiseman
b. Woman
c. Standing man
d. Running man
9. The word Philosophy came from the Greek words philos and sophia. What does sophia mean?
a. Love
b. Truth
c. Wisdom
d. Life
10. Who is the father of ancient Greek Philosophy?
a. Thales
b. Anaximander
c. Aristotle
d. Plato

SS112

1. The word values came from the Latin word valer, which means what?
a. Price
b. Worth
c. Measure
d. Weight
2. Which of the following is NOT a correct statement on freedom and responsibility?
a. Exercise of true freedom is never without respect for others.
b. Freedom is a gift from God, who is limitless therefore, it is limitless.
c. The greater freedom a person has, the greatest is his/her responsibility.
d. The person's free will is actually deciding to choose the will of God.
3. Which of the following statement is closely related to the philosophy “People are born good”?
a. Humans are evil in nature.
b. There is basic goodness in every human being.
c. Society makes people good.
d. Humans are evil.
4. Which illustrates the statement “The end does not justify the means”?
a. A teacher who collects donations to support a just cause.
b. A student studies very hard to pass the exam.
c. A guidance counselor accepts bribery to finance a project in school.
5. What values are essential for life?
a. Vital values
b. Sensible Values
c. Values Education
d. Moral values
6. What kind of values is essential to develop a moral conscience?
a. Vital values
b. Sensible Values
c. Values Education
d. Moral values
7. Moral values are absolute when they are….
a. Universal, objective, and eternal
b. Relative and applicable only to certain situations
c. Conform with social expectation
d. Subordinate to one’s conscience
8. What does the statement “you cannot give what you do not have” presuppose?
a. The home is the primary source of basic values
b. Facilitators of values must grow in their own personal total development and struggle to
understand and apply what they teach
c. The school has the sole responsibility to educate the youth
d. Values education is a lifelong process.
9. What kind of values are the object of our senses?
a. Vital values
b. Sensible Values
c. Values Education
d. Moral values
10. Which of the following should be the ultimate basis for the guiding principles of values
development?
a. Scheler’s values heiarchy
b. Professional code of ethics
c. DepEd Values Education program
d. Moral Law or Natural Law