This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Cbse > Class 12 > Art Humanities > Philosophy > Class 12 Philosophy Chapter 3 Metaphysics – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 12 Philosophy Chapter 3 Metaphysics Quiz 1 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. In the allegory, the prisoners represent ..... A) Students at Dakota High School. B) Aristotle's students. C) People who do not realize that they are not seeing reality. D) Philosophers forced to live among the nomal people. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) People who do not realize that they are not seeing reality. 2. Personal identity over time might be based on: A) Having the same body. B) Continuous memories and psychology. C) Having an immaterial soul. D) All of the above are theories. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above are theories. 3. What is the main argument of agnosticism? A) God does not exist. B) God exists but cannot be known. C) The existence of God is uncertain. D) God is a creation of humans. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The existence of God is uncertain. 4. When Genesis 1:1 begins with the words, "In the beginning God ..... " what worldview statement is being made? A) That God had a beginning. B) That there was once a beginning to all things. C) That God loves baseball. D) It shows that the Bible presumes the existence of God. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) It shows that the Bible presumes the existence of God. 5. What did Paul and Patricia Churchland argue about what ideas are? A) Ideas are static concepts unrelated to brain function. B) Ideas are fixed entities that do not change over time. C) Ideas are energy flowing through nerves in our brains. D) Ideas are solely based on cultural influences. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ideas are energy flowing through nerves in our brains. 6. Newton believed in absolute time which is the belief time is independent of events. A) Zen buddist time. B) Objective relativity of time. C) Absolute time. D) Subjective relativity of time. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Absolute time. 7. What is the cosmological argument? A) Argument that claims that the existence of God can be inferred from facts concering causation, change, , , about the universe. B) An argument that supports the existence of God, refer to the state of being/existing. C) The universe is so complexed and organized, it must have had an intelligent designer. Teleological argument in the existence of God. D) The result or end of the process. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Argument that claims that the existence of God can be inferred from facts concering causation, change, , , about the universe. 8. Which question belongs to the branch of ontology? A) How do we know what is true?. B) What is the difference between right and wrong?. C) What kinds of things exist in the universe?. D) How should governments be organised?. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) What kinds of things exist in the universe?. 9. Pi's thesis for his zoology major concerned ..... A) Aspects of the cosmogony theory of Isaac Luria. B) An analysis of the thyroid gland of the three-toed sloth. C) The sleeping habits of the two-toed sloth. D) The principles of animal training. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) An analysis of the thyroid gland of the three-toed sloth. 10. A "substance" in metaphysics refers to ..... A) Physical matter only. B) The properties of an object. C) A chemical compound. D) The fundamental thing that exists independently. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The fundamental thing that exists independently. 11. Which of the following is a metaphysical question? A) D) How do I know if something is true?. B) What does it mean for something to exist?. C) How should I treat others?. D) What is the speed of light?. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) D) How do I know if something is true?. 12. What is the nature of reality according to metaphysics? A) The study of fundamental questions about existence and reality. B) The study of human behavior. C) The study of physical properties of matter. D) The study of universe's origins and development. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The study of fundamental questions about existence and reality. 13. Belief in something automatically makes it real, no matter what. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 14. What are some reasons why speech is privileged above writing? A) It is uttered, heard, and responded to in the present. B) After it is produced, it is accessed in the future. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It is uttered, heard, and responded to in the present. 15. What is the Principle of Sufficient Reason? A) Everything is predetermined without reason. B) Only some events require an explanation. C) The Principle of Sufficient Reason asserts that everything must have an explanation or cause. D) The universe is random and chaotic. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Principle of Sufficient Reason asserts that everything must have an explanation or cause. 16. How do the prisoners respond to being chained? A) They struggle to break free and scream for help. B) They sadly and passively accept their fate. C) They are unaware that their situation is anything but normal. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) They are unaware that their situation is anything but normal. 17. Bertrand Russell or Auguste Comte would say that only knowledge that is arrived empirically is scientifically valuable A) Pragmatism. B) Logical positivism. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Logical positivism. 18. Matthew and Luke used ..... to describe Jesus to the Jews. A) Art. B) Poetry. C) Philosophy. D) Genealogies. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Genealogies. 19. The question 'Does the colour red exist in the world, or only in our perception?' relates to the metaphysical sub-branch of: A) Ontology. B) Appearance vs Reality. C) Identity and Change. D) Causality and Free Will. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Appearance vs Reality. 20. What is the philosophical view that only material objects exist? A) Materialism. B) Idealism. C) Dualism. D) Spiritualism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Materialism. 21. What is a better definition of time than Aristotle's? A) It affects the past, present, and future equally. B) It is a number with a before and after. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It affects the past, present, and future equally. 22. What did Baruch Spinoza believe about everything that exists and happens? A) God is a distant creator, not part of everything that exists. B) Only physical objects exist as separate entities. C) Spinoza believed that everything that exists has to exist exactly the way it does and everything that happens has to happen for a reason. D) Everything is separate from God and Nature. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Spinoza believed that everything that exists has to exist exactly the way it does and everything that happens has to happen for a reason. 23. The English Neoclassical Period can be divided into what three ages? A) Revolution Age, Augustan Age, Age of Johnson. B) Revolution Age, Restoration Age, Augustan Age. C) Restoration Age, Augustan Age, Age of Johnson. D) Restoration Age, Age of Reason, Age of Johnson. E) Age of Logic, Age of Reason, Age of Order. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Restoration Age, Augustan Age, Age of Johnson. 24. An optical illusion is most relevant to the "appearance vs reality" sub-branch because it shows that: A) The mind and body are separate. B) All truths are relative to culture. C) The laws of nature can be broken. D) Our senses can mislead us about what exists. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Our senses can mislead us about what exists. 25. According to C.A. Campbell, what couldn't happen if we could not choose between good and evil? A) Everyone would act purely out of instinct. B) Choices would be made by external forces. C) Moral responsibility could not exist. D) Good and evil would be indistinguishable. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Moral responsibility could not exist. 26. When Genesis 1:1 refers to " ..... the heavens and the earth." It is referencing the fact that there are two foundational concepts of reality: ..... A) Wind and fire. B) Men and women. C) People who can drive stick and those who cannot. D) A spiritual heaven and a physical earth. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A spiritual heaven and a physical earth. 27. What is the reference point in the metaphysics of presence? A) The Past. B) Present / Presence. C) Absence. D) The Future. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Present / Presence. 28. What is the mind-body problem in metaphysics? A) Mind and body are separate. B) Mind and body are identical. C) Mind and body have no relation. D) The mind-body problem is the question of how mind and body are related. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The mind-body problem is the question of how mind and body are related. 29. Which description matches real vs. ideal existence? A) Real:independent entities in the world; Ideal:ideas in the mind. B) Real:cultural expressions; Ideal:material substances. C) Real:mathematical truths; Ideal:physical bodies. D) Real:sensory illusions; Ideal:divine beings. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Real:independent entities in the world; Ideal:ideas in the mind. 30. Believes in the idea of free will in the sense the agent is an originator of causal chains A) Libertarianism. B) Determinism. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Libertarianism. 31. What did Thales believe the universe was made of? A) Air. B) Fire. C) Earth. D) Water. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Water. 32. What is the final cause A) Law according to which things develop. B) The result or end of the process. C) Starts the proccess, the thing that does. D) The stuff from whcih things are made. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The result or end of the process. 33. What does 'eternal' mean when describing the nature of God. A) God will judge all humans on their actions in their life. B) God has no beginning and no end-God has always been there. C) God is always forgiving of our sins. D) God is fair. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) God has no beginning and no end-God has always been there. 34. A worldview acts like a lens that help bring things into focus and equip us to navigate the ideas we face everyday. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 35. A spaceship travels near the speed of light, and its crew ages two years while people on Earth age ten. This relates to the metaphysics of space and time because it asks: A) Whether humans can survive in space. B) Whether time is fixed or can change with motion. C) Whether space travel is ethical. D) How to measure distances between stars. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Whether time is fixed or can change with motion. 36. Which philosopher wrote about the the Euthyphro dilemma in addressing the relationshop between God, good & evil? A) Thomas Aquinas. B) Aristotle. C) Blaise Pascal. D) Plato. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Plato. 37. Thinking is nothing more than electro chemical material reactions in the brain. What theory is this which is associated with Thomas Hobbes & Gilbert Ryle? A) Solipism. B) Libertarianism. C) Materialism. D) Idealism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Materialism. 38. Which statement best distinguishes essential from accidental properties? A) Accidental properties are required for existence. B) Accidental properties define what a thing is. C) Essential properties can change without altering identity. D) If essential properties are lost, the substance becomes different. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) If essential properties are lost, the substance becomes different. 39. What is considered most important in Aristotle's metaphysics of presence? A) The present. B) The Past. C) The future. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The present. 40. What did Edmund Husserl believe time is? A) Time is a constantly changing "now" . B) Time is a linear sequence of events without any mental involvement. C) Time is a physical dimension independent of consciousness. D) Time is merely a social construct with no relation to perception. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Time is a constantly changing "now" . 41. What does essentialism claim about essences? A) They are biological traits only. B) They exist independently as separate realities. C) They are purely mental constructs with no relation to individuals. D) They exist only as names for communication. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) They exist independently as separate realities. 42. What does the term 'metaphysics' mean? A) Study of the material world. B) Study of physical objects. C) Study of the universe's origin. D) Study of abstract concepts. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Study of abstract concepts. 43. According to Aristotle, what remains when all specific qualities of an object are removed? A) Matter. B) Form. C) Quality. D) Substance. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Substance. 44. Which attribute of God is challenged by the Euthyphro dilemma? A) Omnipotence. B) Omnibenevolence. C) Omniscience. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Omnibenevolence. 45. Which philosopher is associated with zen buddhist time? A) Hume. B) Dogen. C) Voltaire. D) Descartes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dogen. 46. What does Jean-Paul Sartre believes creates our essence? A) Our actions and choices create our essence. B) Our birth determines our essence. C) Our environment solely defines our essence. D) Our thoughts alone create our essence. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Our actions and choices create our essence. 47. According to the text, why should opposing metaphysical doctrines be studied together? A) To avoid bias in laboratory experiments. B) To enhance understanding by contrasting their stances. C) To comply with academic regulations. D) To memorize terminology more quickly. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To enhance understanding by contrasting their stances. 48. A(n) ..... believes that all of reality is one reality, therefore all of life is connected. A) Theist. B) Idealist. C) Monist. D) Materialist. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Monist. 49. This theory operates on that every event is an instance of some law of nature, a complete absence of free will. A) Determinism. B) Libertarianism. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Determinism. 50. Which culture believed a white giant, called Mbombo, created the universe by vomiting the sun, the moon, and the stars? A) Norse mythology. B) Zulu culture. C) Mayan culture. D) Kuba culture. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Kuba culture. 51. According to Adi Shankaracharya, what is the highest reality? A) Brahman. B) Karma. C) Maya. D) Atman. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Brahman. 52. What are the main branches of metaphysics? A) Biology, chemistry, physics. B) Ethics, aesthetics, logic. C) Psychology, sociology, anthropology. D) Ontology, epistemology, cosmology. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ontology, epistemology, cosmology. 53. What is man's life in this world? A) It is not a point. It is a duration of time that has past, present and future aspects (if the man or woman is living.). B) It is a point that is only happening in the present. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It is not a point. It is a duration of time that has past, present and future aspects (if the man or woman is living.). 54. What is the meaning of the term 'theism'? A) Belief in no god. B) Believe in one god. C) Believe in many gods. D) Belief in the uncertainty of the existence of god. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Believe in one god. 55. Which of the choices is not in both Pi's fantastical story or the real story? A) The boat sinks. B) Pi suffers. C) Pi has children. D) Pi's family die. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pi has children. 56. ..... that help someone make sense of the world. A) Mr. Roger's Neighborhood and Sesame Street are shows. B) Mrs. Rexford's makes special pizzas. C) Johnny Cash sings songs. D) A worldview is a set if beliefs. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A worldview is a set if beliefs. 57. What disturbing discovery does pi make in a "fruit" from one of the trees? A) A poisonous worm. B) A human tooth. C) A meerkat knucklebone. D) A flesh-eating slug. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A human tooth. 58. According to Zhou Dunyi, what is qi? A) Qi is a type of food in Chinese cuisine. B) Qi is a philosophical concept that has no physical form. C) Qi is a historical figure in Chinese literature. D) Qi is the life force and physical energy of the universe. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Qi is the life force and physical energy of the universe. 59. What is the formal cause A) Law according to which things develop. B) Result or end of process. C) The stuff from whcih things are made. D) Starts the process, the thing that does. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Law according to which things develop. 60. A theist trusts that when humans die they are reincarnated into another part of reality. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 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